AWS Compute Blog
Category: Compute
Register now for the first virtual AWS Serverless-First Function
This post is courtesy of Rebecca Marshburn, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Serverless AWS is hosting the first-ever completely serverless-focused, free virtual event: the AWS Serverless-First Function. The event takes place across two Thursdays – May 21 and May 28 – and focuses on two important themes of building on serverless: May 21: Serverless for your […]
Build a serverless Martian weather display with CircuitPython and AWS Lambda
Build a standalone digital weather display of Mars showing the latest images from the Mars Curiosity Rover. This project uses an Adafruit PyPortal, an open-source IoT touch display. Traditionally, a microcontroller is programmed with firmware compiled using various specific toolchains. Fortunately, the PyPortal is programmed using CircuitPython, a lightweight version of Python that works on […]
Using AWS ParallelCluster with a serverless API
Update – February 22, 2022 : We have released AWS ParallelCluster version 3. It brings with it the new ParallelCluster API and a number of improvements and changes to functionality. Check the Changelog, Instructions for Moving from 2.x to 3.x, or the AWS ParallelCluster documentation for more. This post is contributed by Dario La Porta, […]
Deep dive into Fargate Spot to run your ECS Tasks for up to 70% less
Author: Pritam Pal, Sr. EC2 Spot Specialist SA AWS launched AWS Fargate Spot during late 2019 for customers looking for a cost effective way to run containers. This blog dives deep into how to use ECS Fargate Spot and Fargate Tasks to lower the cost of your workloads. I explain existing concepts like Container Stop Timeout, catching […]
Building an automated knowledge repo with Amazon EventBridge and Zendesk
Zendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base that helps customers harness the power of institutional knowledge. It enables users to build a customizable help center and customer portal. This post shows how to implement a bidirectional event orchestration pattern between AWS services and an Amazon EventBridge third-party integration partner. This example uses support ticket events […]
Decoupling larger applications with Amazon EventBridge
This blog post shows how you can use an event-based architecture to decouple services and functional areas of applications. It uses the document repository solution as an example, to compare architecture after shifting to an event-based approach.
Using AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline to Deploy Applications to Amazon Lightsail
This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman Introduction Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started in the cloud, allowing you to get your application running on your own virtual server in a matter of minutes. But, what do you do if you want to update […]
Using Load Balancers on Amazon Lightsail
This post was written by Robert Zhu, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS. As your web application grows, it needs to scale up to main performance and improve availability. A Load Balancer is an important tool in any developer’s tool belt. In this post, I show how to load balance a simple Node.js web application using […]
Automating scalable business workflows using minimal code
In this blog post, I show how to use a serverless application to build and manage enterprise workflows at scale. This minimal-code solution is highly scalable and flexible, and can be modified easily to meet your needs.
Cost Optimize your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using EC2 Spot Instances
Author: Rajesh Kesaraju, Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, EC2 Spot Instances In this blog post, I go over using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances on continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workloads, via the popular open-source automation server Jenkins. I also break down the steps required to adopt Spot Instances into your CI/CD pipelines for cost optimization purposes. In this blog, I explain […]