AWS Compute Blog
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Managing AWS Lambda runtime upgrades
This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Dan Fox, Principal Specialist Serverless Solutions Architect. AWS Lambda supports multiple programming languages through the use of runtimes. A Lambda runtime provides a language-specific execution environment, which provides the OS, language support, and additional settings, such as environment variables and certificates that you can access from […]
Node.js 20.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda
This post is written by Pascal Vogel, Solutions Architect, and Andrea Amorosi, Senior Solutions Architect. You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 20 runtime. This Node.js version is in active LTS status and ready for general use. To use this new version, specify a runtime parameter value of nodejs20.x when creating or […]
Introducing the Amazon Linux 2023 runtime for AWS Lambda
With this launch, you can now build your Lambda functions using Amazon Linux 2023 as the custom runtime or use it as the base image to run your container-based Lambda functions.
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 […]
Introducing faster polling scale-up for AWS Lambda functions configured with Amazon SQS
The improved Lambda SQS event source polling scale-up capability enables up to five times faster scale-up performance for spiky event-driven workloads using SQS queues, at no additional cost.
Sending and receiving webhooks on AWS: Innovate with event notifications
Webhooks are a popular method for applications to communicate, and for businesses to collaborate and integrate with customers and partners. This post shows how you can build applications to send and receive webhooks on AWS.
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 […]
Mixing AWS Graviton with x86 CPUs to optimize cost and resiliency using Amazon EKS
This post is written by Yahav Biran, Principal SA, and Yuval Dovrat, Israel Head Compute SA. This post shows you how to integrate AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances into an existing Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) environment running on x86-based Amazon EC2 instances. Customers use mixed-CPU architectures to enable their application to utilize a wide selection […]
Maintaining a local copy of your data in AWS Local Zones
This post is written by Leonardo Solano, Senior Hybrid Cloud SA and Obed Gutierrez, Solutions Architect, Enterprise. This post covers data replication strategies to back up your data into AWS Local Zones. These strategies include database replication, file based and object storage replication, and partner solutions for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Customers running […]
Enabling highly available connectivity from on premises to AWS Local Zones
This post is written by Leonardo Solano, Senior Hybrid Cloud SA and Robert Belson SA Developer Advocate. Planning your network topology is a foundational requirement of the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. REL02-BP02 defines how to provide redundant connectivity between private networks in the cloud and on-premises environments using AWS Direct Connect for […]