Category: Compute

We have a guest blog post today from our friend Patrick Brandt at The Coca‑Cola Company. Patrick and his team have open-sourced an innovative use of Docker containers to encourage rapid local development and testing for applications that use AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB.   Using Cloudmicro to build AWS Lambda and DynamoDB applications on your laptop […]

My colleague Drew Dennis sent a nice guest post that shows how to use Amazon ECS with Spot fleet. — There are advantages to using on-demand EC2 instances. However, for many workloads, such as stateless or task-based scenarios that simply run as long as they need to run and are easily replaced with subsequent identical […]

Nick Corbett, AWS Professional Services, Big Data Consultant Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda empower developers to deliver a microservice architecture without managing infrastructure.  Building scalable, secure, and durable applications has never been easier.  However, managing the deployment of a large project is not always easy.  A global app, deployed across multiple AWS regions in […]

Vyom Nagrani, Sr. Product Manager, AWS Lambda Announcements AWS Lambda announced four new features at re:Invent 2015 Support for Python functions Increased function duration from 60 seconds to 300 seconds Function Versioning & Aliasing Scheduled functions (Cron) – Console only You can read the details for these announcements here. Breakout sessions We had listed the […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda REVISED: Python 2.7 is now a first-class language in AWS Lambda…no workarounds required!

Tipu Qureshi, AWS Senior Cloud Support Engineer The RequestSpotFleet API allows you to launch and manage an entire fleet of EC2 Spot Instances with one request. A fleet is a collection of Spot Instances that are all working together as part of a distributed application and providing cost savings. With the ModifySpotFleetRequest API, it’s possible […]

Ajay Nair, Sr. Product Manager, AWS Lambda   If you will be attending re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas next week, you will have many opportunities to learn more about building applications using AWS Lambda. The Lambda team will be presenting multiple sessions covering new features, as well as deep dives on using Lambda for data […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager You can easily test a Lambda function locally by using either a nodejs runner or JUnit for Java. But once your function is live in Lambda, how do you test it? One option is to create an API for it using Amazon API Gateway and then employ one of […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager At LinuxCon/ContainerCon 2015 I presented a demo-driven talk titled, “Microservices without the Servers”. In it, I created an image processing microservice, deployed it to multiple regions, built a mobile app that used it as a backend, added an HTTPS-based API using Amazon API Gateway and a website, and then […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager Quick, what’s wrong with the Lambda code sketch below? exports.handler = function(event, context) { anyAsyncCall(args, function(err, result) { if (err) console.log(‘problem’); else /* do something with result */; }); context.succeed(); }; If you said the placement of context.succeed, you’re correct – it belongs inside the callback. In general, when […]