Category: Application Services

In this blog post, you learn how to control concurrency in a distributed system. You implement a semaphore using Step Functions and DynamoDB Conditional Expressions. Finally, you use EventBridge to trigger lock cleanup when you encounter failure.

This post is written by Bryant Bost, Cloud Application Architect. There is not a one-size-fits-all approach to access control for Amazon API Gateway. Properties of your application such as API type, identity provider, client access patterns, privacy requirements, and others influence the design of your access control solution. Understanding the types of access control available […]

All the feature launches, blogs, videos, tech talks and more happenings from the AWS Serverless service teams in Q1 2021.

Amazon API Gateway recently enhanced base path mapping for custom domains by introducing multi-level base path mapping. Before multi-level base path mapping, paths could not contain a forward slash (/) in a base path. This restriction meant that base paths could only consist of a single word (for example, sales) or a concatenation of several […]

This post is written by Rudolf Potucek, Startup Solutions Architect. Amazon API Gateway REST APIs have supported binary data since 2016. API Gateway HTTP APIs makes it easier to work with both binary and text media types. It supports a new payload format version and infers encoding based on request and response formats. In this […]

This article presents an architecture that enables customers to use Step Functions workflow callbacks without exposing the implementation and AWS service details to external systems.

In this blog post, you learn how to use AWS Step Functions and parallel processing to complete four hours of work in 60 seconds. You learn how to apply the pattern of decomposition to achieve improved scalability and manageability.

X-Ray is a powerful tool for providing observability in serverless applications. With the launch of X-Ray passive tracing in EventBridge, this allows you to trace requests across distributed applications more easily.

In this blog post, I explain how to secure workloads with public endpoints and the different authentication and authorization options available. I also show different approaches to exposing APIs publicly.

This post introduces the Simple Trivia Service, a single- and multi-player game built using a serverless-first architecture on AWS. I cover different solutions that you can use to enable connectivity from your game client to a serverless-first backend for both single- and multi-player games.