Category: Compute

This blog written by Jeff Marcinko, Sr. Technical Account Manager, Health Care & Life Sciencesand Brian Zambrano, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless. Developers and operators have been using the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to author, build, test, and deploy serverless applications in AWS for over three years. Since its inception, the AWS SAM […]

This post shows how to use the new custom consumer group ID feature of the Lambda event source mapping for Amazon MSK and self-managed Kafka. This feature can be used to consume messages with Lambda starting at a specific timestamp or offset within a Kafka topic. It can also be used to consume messages from a consumer group that is replicated from another Kafka cluster using MirrorMaker v2.

When building serverless applications using AWS Lambda, there are a number of considerations regarding security, governance, and compliance. This post highlights how Lambda, as a serverless service, simplifies cloud security and compliance so you can concentrate on your business logic. It covers controls that you can implement for your Lambda workloads to ensure that your […]

You can use Lambda functions to handle fully managed asynchronous processing of SQS messages. Estimating the cost and optimal setup depends on leveraging the various configurations of SQS and Lambda functions. The cost estimator tool presented in this blog should help you understand these configurations and their impact on the overall cost and performance of the Lambda function-based messaging solutions.

This blog post is written by, Gabriele Postorino, Senior Technical Account Manager, and Giorgio Bonfiglio, Principal Technical Account Manager In this post, we’ll discuss how you can prepare for planned and unplanned scaling events with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and make sure that your infrastructure is ready to sustain increased compute power requirements. […]

AWS Lambda functions often need to access secrets, such as certificates, API keys, or database passwords. Storing secrets outside the function code in an external secrets manager helps to avoid exposing secrets in application source code. Using a secrets manager also allows you to audit and control access, and can help with secret rotation. Do […]

This blog post is written by Heeki Park, Principal Solutions Architect, Serverless. AWS Lambda charges for on-demand function invocations based on two primary parameters: invocation requests and compute duration, measured in GB-seconds. If you configure additional ephemeral storage for your function, Lambda also charges for ephemeral storage duration, measured in GB-seconds. AWS continues to find […]

In this blog post, you learn how to run external transactions securely on Db2 for IBM i databases using a combination of Amazon ECR and AWS Lambda. By using Docker to package the driver, forwarder, and custom queries, you can execute transactions from Lambda, allowing modern architectures to interface directly with Db2 workloads. Get started by cloning the GitHub repository and following the deployment instructions.

This blog post is written by Chris McPeek, Principal Solutions Architect. AWS Lambda now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), allowing you to control access to Lambda functions within AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) using tags. With ABAC, you can scale an access control strategy by setting granular permissions with tags without requiring permissions updates […]

This blog post is written by, Frankie Negro, Outposts Solution Architect. AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises. Outposts is available in a variety of form factors, from 1U and 2U Outposts servers (https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/servers/) to 42U Outposts racks (https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/rack/). AWS Outposts is […]