Category: Compute

This post was written by Mike Coleman, Senior Developer Advocate  Amazon Lightsail recently announced the release of Lightsail Content Delivery Network (CDN). With this launch customers can now distribute their content more securely to users across the globe. Content is served from the edge location closest to the end user which improves performance while reducing […]

This post shows how you can use EFS for Lambda to deploy large DL libraries and models into a function for synchronous invocations.

The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. Built on AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM provides shorthand syntax to declare serverless resources. During deployment, AWS SAM transforms the serverless resources into CloudFormation syntax, enabling you to build serverless applications faster. As a companion to AWS SAM, the AWS SAM […]

Serverless applications can help you develop more agile applications that can scale automatically. By using serverless services in your architecture, this reduces the amount of boilerplate code. It also helps offload complex tasks to specialized services. As a result, a well-designed serverless application can be modified easily to deliver new feature requests, while maintaining high […]

Welcome to the 10th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, checkout what happened […]

Update: The complete blog series and supporting GitHub repository is now available: Part 1: Introducing the new Serverless LAMP stack Part 2: Scaling relational databases Part 3: Replacing the web server Part 4: Building a serverless Laravel application Part 5: The CDK construct library for the serverless LAMP stack Part 6: From MVC to serverless […]

In this guide I show how to build an electronic security lock for package delivery, securing physical documents, or granting access to a secret lab. This project uses AWS Serverless to create a touchscreen keypad lock that uses SMS to alert a recipient with a custom message and unlock code. Files are included for the […]

This post examines how cold starts impact performance in serverless backends for web applications. It shows how the most important focus area is usually synchronous APIs called by the frontend application. I explain options available for targeting cold starts in the Lambda service.

This post demonstrates how to set up a sample application for consuming events directly from EventBridge into a custom application hosted in ECS.

This post is contributed by Andrew Pearce – Sr. Systems Dev Engineer, AWS Since launching Amazon EC2 Image Builder, many customers say they want to re-use existing investments in configuration management technologies (such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) with Image Builder pipelines. In this blog, I walk through creating a document that can execute an Ansible […]