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Category: AWS Lambda
Powering Secondary DNS in a VPC using AWS Lambda and Amazon Route 53 Private Hosted Zones
Mark Statham, Senior Cloud Architect When you implement hybrid connectivity between existing on-premises environments and AWS, there are a number of approaches to provide DNS resolution of both on-premises and VPC resources. In a hybrid scenario, you likely require resolution of on-premises resources, AWS services deployed in VPCs, AWS service endpoints, and your own resources […]
AWS Serverless Chatbot Competition
Today, we are pleased to announce the official AWS Serverless Chatbot competition! Bots on Slack can help your team be more productive and accomplish more tasks. They can help you increase visibility into your operations or help your customers easily get information through a natural, conversational interface. However, building and running bots can be a […]
Serverless Cross Account Stream Replication Using AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis Firehose
February 12, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This is a guest post by Richard Freeman, Ph.D., a solutions architect and data scientist at JustGiving. […]
AWS Lambda Now Available in Singapore!
We are happy to announce the next step in our regional launch plan has been completed: AWS Lambda is now available in Singapore. With yesterday’s launch, we now have both Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda available in Singapore, so you can now use both services together in seven regions: US-WEST-2 US-EAST-1 EU-WEST-1 EU-CENTRAL-1 AP-NORTHEAST-1 […]
Creating an Enterprise Scheduler Using AWS Lambda and Tagging
Co-authored by Felix Candelario and Benjamin F., AWS Solutions Architects Many companies are looking to optimize their AWS usage and lower operational costs. While production environments are typically well-governed and reach optimal use through services such as Auto Scaling, sometimes development and testing need a different approach. There are a number of ways to schedule […]
Build a Serverless, Private URL Shortener
Update October 10, 2023: This post is out of date – visit Building a serverless URL shortener app without AWS Lambda for a more recent solution. This post was written by Stephan Hadinger, Sr Mgr, Solutions Architecture. As a solutions architect, I often need to send large files to customers, such as architecture diagrams and […]
Create and Deploy a Chat Bot to AWS Lambda in Five Minutes
This is a guest post by Gojko Adzic, creator of ClaudiaJS The new Claudia.JS Bot Builder project helps JavaScript developers to easily create chat-bots for Facebook, Telegram, Skype, and Slack, and deploy them to AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in minutes. The key idea behind this project is to remove all the boilerplate […]
Error Handling Patterns in Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda
Ryan Green @ryangtweets Software Development Engineer, API Gateway A common API design practice is to define an explicit contract for the types of error responses that the API can produce. This allows API consumers to implement a robust error-handling mechanism which may include user feedback or automatic retries, improving the usability and reliability of applications […]
Extracting Video Metadata using Lambda and Mediainfo
Michael RaposaPrincipal Consultant For a video asset, technical metadata includes information such as video codec, audio codec, resolution, frame rate, aspect ratio, and a host of other very detailed technical information. With technical metadata, customers can make intelligent decisions about what to do next in their workflow. The asset may be transcoded to a standard […]
Sumo Logic App for AWS Lambda Released
Today, Sumo Logic made its App for AWS Lambda generally available and introduced a purpose-built Lambda function, which is immediately available for launch in the AWS Blueprint library. Now, customers using Lambda functions can better visualize things like metering for code execution, predict compute usage, and monitor memory limits through Sumo Logic’s predictive analytics capabilities, […]