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Category: AWS Lambda

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Implementing AWS Lambda error handling patterns

This post is written by Jeff Chen, Principal Cloud Application Architect, and Jeff Li, Senior Cloud Application Architect Event-driven architectures are an architecture style that can help you boost agility and build reliable, scalable applications. Splitting an application into loosely coupled services can help each service scale independently. A distributed, loosely coupled application depends on […]

Serverless ICYMI Q2 2023

Welcome to the 22nd edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]

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Retrieving parameters and secrets with Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript)

This post is written by Andrea Amorosi, Senior Solutions Architect and Pascal Vogel, Solutions Architect. When building serverless applications using AWS Lambda, you often need to retrieve parameters, such as database connection details, API secrets, or global configuration values at runtime. You can make these parameters available to your Lambda functions via secure, scalable, and […]

Selecting cost effective capacity reservations for your business-critical workloads on Amazon EC2

This blog post is written by Sarath Krishnan, Senior Solutions Architect and Navdeep Singh, Senior Customer Solutions Manager. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels famously said, “everything fails all the time.” Designing your systems for failure is important for ensuring availability, scalability, fault tolerance and business continuity. Resilient systems scale with your business demand changes, prevent data […]

Developing a serverless Slack app using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda

This blog was written by Sam Wilson, Cloud Application Architect and John Lopez, Cloud Application Architect. Slack, as an enterprise collaboration and communication service, presents opportunities for builders to improve efficiency through implementing custom-written Slack Applications (apps). One such opportunity is to expose existing AWS resources to your organization without your employees needing AWS Management […]

Debugging SnapStart-enabled Lambda functions made easy with AWS X-Ray

This post is written by Rahul Popat (Senior Solutions Architect) and Aneel Murari (Senior Solutions Architect)  Today, AWS X-Ray is announcing support for SnapStart-enabled AWS Lambda functions. Lambda SnapStart is a performance optimization that significantly improves the cold startup times for your functions. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, this feature delivers up to 10 times faster function startup times for […]

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Extending a serverless, event-driven architecture to existing container workloads

The blog explains a way to integrate existing container workload running on AWS Fargate with a new event-driven architecture. You use EventBridge to decouple different services from each other that are built using different compute technologies, languages, and frameworks. Using AWS CDK, you gain the modularity of building services decoupled from each other.