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Category: Front-End Web & Mobile
Propagating valid mTLS client certificate identity to downstream services using Amazon API Gateway
This blog written by Omkar Deshmane, Senior SA and Anton Aleksandrov, Principal SA, Serverless. This blog shows how to use Amazon API Gateway with a custom authorizer to process incoming requests, validate the mTLS client certificate, extract the client certificate subject, and propagate it to the downstream application in a base64 encoded HTTP header. This […]
Lifting and shifting a web application to AWS Serverless: Part 2
In part 1, you learn if it is possible to migrate a non-serverless web application to a serverless environment without changing much code. You learn different tools that can help you in this process, like Lambda Web Adaptor and AWS Amplify. By the end, you have migrated an application into a serverless environment. However, if […]
Lifting and shifting a web application to AWS Serverless: Part 1
Customers migrating to the cloud often want to get the benefits of serverless architecture. But what is the best approach and is it possible? There are many strategies to do a migration, but lift and shift is often the fastest way to get to production with the migrated workload. You might also wonder if it’s […]
Building resilient private APIs using Amazon API Gateway
This post written by Giedrius Praspaliauskas, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless. Modern architectures meet recovery objectives (recovery time objective, RTO, and recovery point objective, RPO) by being resilient to routine and unexpected infrastructure disruptions. Depending on the recovery objectives and regulatory requirements, developers must choose the disaster recovery strategy. For more on disaster recovery strategies, see […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q1 2022
Welcome to the 17th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all 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, check out what happened […]
Enriching addresses with AWS Lambda and the Amazon Location Service
This blog post performs address validation with the Amazon Location Service, demonstrating both geocoding and reverse geocoding capabilities. Using a serverless architecture with S3 and Lambda, you can achieve both cost optimization and performance improvement compared with traditional methods of address validation.
ICYMI: Serverless Q4 2021
Welcome to the 16th 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, check out what […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q3 2021
Welcome to the 15th 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!
Building well-architected serverless applications: Optimizing application costs
This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the example application. COST 1. How […]
Building well-architected serverless applications: Optimizing application performance – part 3
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See […]