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Category: AWS Lambda

Lambda function retrieving database credentials from an external source

Choosing the right solution for AWS Lambda external parameters

This post is written by Thomas Moore, Solutions Architect, Serverless. When using AWS Lambda to build serverless applications, customers often need to retrieve parameters from an external source at runtime. This allows you to share parameter values across multiple functions or microservices, providing a single source of truth for updates. A common example is retrieving […]

KeyStore and TrustStore

Implementing mutual TLS for Java-based AWS Lambda functions

This post is written by Dhiraj Mahapatro, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless and Christian Mueller, Principal Solutions Architect Modern secure applications establish network connections to other services through HTTPS. This ensures that the application connects to the right party and encrypts the data before sending it over the network. You might not want unauthenticated users to […]

Using organization IDs as principals in Lambda resource policies

This post is written by Rahul Popat, Specialist SA, Serverless and Dhiraj Mahapatro, Sr. Specialist SA, Serverless AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. These events may include changes in state or an update, such as a user […]

Architecture after migrating

Migrating a monolithic .NET REST API to AWS Lambda

This blog post shows the required considerations for migrating a .NET Core REST API to AWS Lambda. You can now start to look at your existing code base and make an informed decision whether Lambda is for you. With the right abstractions and configuration, you can migrate a .NET Core API to Lambda compute with copy and paste.

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Migrating AWS Lambda functions to Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors

AWS Lambda now allows you to configure new and existing functions to run on Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors in addition to x86-based functions. Using this processor architecture option allows you to get up to 34% better price performance. This blog post highlights some considerations when moving from x86 to arm64 as the migration process is […]

Batching controls with Lambda event source mapping

Introducing AWS Lambda batching controls for message broker services

This post is written by Mithun Mallick, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect. AWS Lambda now supports configuring a maximum batch window for instance-based message broker services to fine tune when Lambda invocations occur. This feature gives you an additional control on batching behavior when processing data. It applies to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon […]