Category: AWS Lambda

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda has increased the maximum capacity of memory for Lambda functions from 1Gb to 1.5Gb. Setting the memory for a Lambda function implicitly also sets the CPU, network, and other resource allocation, so this means you also have access to more compute power when you choose one of the new […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager Emma Zhao, AWS Lambda Software Developer This blog introduces two new ways to deploy AWS Lambda functions…and as a bonus, we’ll create a “Lambda auto-deploy” service as well! Deploying AWS Lambda code from Amazon S3 buckets Many developers use Amazon S3, the AWS object storage system, as an easy-to-use […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager Will Gaul, AWS Lambda Software Developer         Update on August 26, 2019: due to the depreciation of GitHub Services since this blog was published, it is now recommended to use a webhook instead of the method shown below. GitHub webhooks allow you to easily generate notifications […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda Authorization and security is a critical feature of every AWS service, including Lambda. But enabling developers to authorize and secure their Lambda functions isn’t enough — Lambda should also be easy to use, quick to set up, and flexible to configure. In this post we talk about how Lambda was designed to achieve […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda I’m hosting a “101”-level webinar on Lambda, including a demo of recently added Mobile Compute functionality, on 4/30. Learn more about the event Register now  

In previous posts on this blog we’ve talked about how Lambda manages container lifetimes and how you can use custom JavaScript libraries in Lambda, even native ones. In this post I cover how you can run arbitrary executables, including languages like Python, and shell scripts like bash. First, a note on security: Lambda’s built-in sandbox […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS San Francisco Summit 2015 Lots of exciting news last week in San Francisco around Event Computing and container computing. Andy Jassy keynote, including Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda GA announcements In summit the keynote, Andy Jassy announces that the Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda services are both now generally available […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda Using Amazon SNS to Trigger Lambda Functions Sending messages to SNS can now also trigger Lambda functions, allowing you to add arbitrary compute capabilities to any service or application that knows how to send messages, such as Amazon CloudWatch alarms. Intelligent IT: Triggering Code by Sending it Messages SNS is an […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda Now Generally Available AWS Lambda has exited preview and is now ready for production workloads! Increased Default Limits AWS Lambda is designed to scale to the size of your workload, whether that’s one request a month or 10,000 a second. As a safety precaution each account has two limits: […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda Bryan Liston, AWS Solutions Architect In this post we take a look at how to use custom nodejs packages with AWS Lambda, including building and packaging native nodejs modules for use in your Lambda functions. To do the steps below, you’ll need an EC2 instance or a similar machine running Amazon […]