AWS Compute Blog
Category: AWS Lambda
Build workflows for Amazon Forecast with AWS Step Functions
This post shows how to create a Step Functions workflow for Forecast using AWS SDK service integrations, which allows you to use over 200 with AWS API actions. It shows two patterns for handling asynchronous tasks. The first pattern queries the describe-* API repeatedly and the second pattern uses the “Retry” option. This simplifies the development of workflows because in many cases they can replace Lambda functions.
Creating AWS Lambda environment variables from AWS Secrets Manager
This solution provides a way to convert information from Secrets Manager into Lambda environment variables. By following this approach, you can centralize the management of information through Secrets Manager, instead of at the function level.
Monitoring and tuning federated GraphQL performance on AWS Lambda
There are multiple factors to consider when tuning a federated GQL system. You must be aware of trade-offs when deciding on factors like the runtime environment of Lambda functions. An extensive testing strategy can help you scale systems and narrow down issues quickly. Well-defined testing can also keep pipelines clean of false-positive blockages.
Building a difference checker with Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda
This blog post shows how to create a scalable difference checking tool for objects stored in S3 buckets. The Lambda function is invoked when S3 writes new versions of an object to the bucket. This example also shows how to remove earlier versions of object and define a set number of versions to retain.
Operating serverless at scale: Keeping control of resources – Part 3
This post describes guardrails that you can set up in your accounts or across the organization to keep control over deployed resources. These guardrails can be more or less restrictive according to your requirements.
Visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows from the AWS Batch console
This post written by Dhiraj Mahapatro, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. AWS Step Functions is a low-code visual workflow service used to orchestrate AWS services, automate business processes, and build serverless applications. Step Functions workflows manage failures, retries, parallelization, service integrations, and observability so builders can focus on business logic. AWS Batch is one of the […]
Accepting API keys as a query string in Amazon API Gateway
This post was written by Ronan Prenty, Sr. Solutions Architect and Zac Burns, Cloud Support Engineer & API Gateway SME Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easier for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the front door to applications and allow […]
Operating serverless at scale: Improving consistency – Part 2
This post shows a number of solutions to create and share archetypes or layers across the company. With these archetypes, development teams can quickly bootstrap projects with company standards and best practices.
Avoiding recursive invocation with Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda
It’s best practice to store the output of the Lambda function in a different bucket or AWS resource than the source bucket. In cases where you need to store the processed object in the same bucket, I show three different designs to help minimize the risk of recursive invocations.
ICYMI: Serverless Q3 2021
Welcome to the 15th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed!