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Category: AWS Lambda

Lambda updated initial scaling

Scaling improvements when processing Apache Kafka with AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is improving the automatic scaling behavior when processing data from Apache Kafka event-sources. Lambda is increasing the default number of initial consumers, improving how quickly consumers scale up, and helping to ensure that consumers don’t scale down too quickly. There is no additional action that you must take, and there is no additional […]

How the Lambda Runtime consumes the Lambda Runtime API

Enhancing runtime security and governance with the AWS Lambda Runtime API proxy extension

This post is written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Serverless Solutions Architect,  and Shridhar Pandey, Senior AWS Lambda Product Manager. AWS Lambda runtimes use the Lambda Runtime API to communicate with the Lambda service. Runtimes use it to retrieve inbound events to be processed by the function handler, return successful handler responses to the Lambda service, and […]

Serverless ICYMI Q3 2023

Welcome to the 23rd 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 […]

Building a serverless document chat with AWS Lambda and Amazon Bedrock

This post is written by Pascal Vogel, Solutions Architect, and Martin Sakowski, Senior Solutions Architect. Large language models (LLMs) are proving to be highly effective at solving general-purpose tasks such as text generation, analysis and summarization, translation, and much more. Because they are trained on large datasets, they can use a broad generalist knowledge base. […]

Request flow for idempotent Lambda function

Implementing idempotent AWS Lambda functions with Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript)

This post is written by Alexander Schüren, Sr Specialist SA, Powertools. One of the design principles of AWS Lambda is to “develop for retries and failures”. If your function fails, the Lambda service will retry and invoke your function again with the same event payload. Therefore, when your function performs tasks such as processing orders […]

Python and Node.js Lambda Layer for Chaos Injection

Building resilient serverless applications using chaos engineering

This post is written by Suranjan Choudhury (Head of TME and ITeS SA) and Anil Sharma (Sr PSA, Migration)  Chaos engineering is the process of stressing an application in testing or production environments by creating disruptive events, such as outages, observing how the system responds, and implementing improvements. Chaos engineering helps you create the real-world […]