AWS Compute Blog
Category: Announcements
Register for the Modern Applications Online Event
Earlier this year we hosted the first serverless themed virtual event, the Serverless-First Function. We enjoyed the opportunity to virtually connect with our customers so much that we want to do it again. This time, we’re expanding the scope to feature serverless, containers, and front-end development content. The Modern Applications Online Event is scheduled for […]
Building event-driven architectures with Amazon SNS FIFO
Amazon SNS FIFO topics can simplify the design of event-driven architecture and reduce custom code in building such applications.
Building Extensions for AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda Extensions is now generally available, For more information, see “Getting started with using your favorite operational tools on AWS Lambda“. AWS Lambda is announcing a preview of Lambda Extensions, a new way to easily integrate Lambda with your favorite monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools. Extensions enable tools to integrate deeply into the […]
Introducing AWS Lambda Extensions
AWS Lambda Extensions is now generally available, For more information, see “Getting started with using your favorite operational tools on AWS Lambda“. AWS Lambda is announcing a preview of Lambda Extensions, a new way to easily integrate Lambda with your favorite monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools. In this post I explain how Lambda extensions […]
Introducing IAM and Lambda authorizers for Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs
Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs enable you to create RESTful APIs with lower latency and lower cost than API Gateway REST APIs. The API Gateway team is continuing work to improve and migrate popular REST API features to HTTP APIs. We are adding two of the most requested features, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]
Introducing queued purchases for Savings Plans
This blog post is contributed by Idan Maizlits, Sr. Product Manager, Savings Plans AWS now provides the ability for you to queue purchases of Savings Plans by specifying a time, up to 3 years in the future, to carry out those purchases. This blog reviews how you can queue purchases of Savings Plans. In November […]
Introducing larger state payloads for AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions allows you to create serverless workflows that orchestrate your business processes. Step Functions stores data from workflow invocations as application state. Today we are increasing the size limit of application state from 32,768 characters to 256 kilobytes of data per workflow invocation. The new limit matches payload limits for other commonly used […]
Deploying your first 5G enabled application with AWS Wavelength
This post was written by Mike Coleman, Senior Developer Advocate, Twitter handle: @mikegcoleman Today, AWS released AWS Wavelength. Wavelength allows you to deploy applications and services at the edge of a mobile carrier’s 5G network. By combining the benefits of 5G, such as high bandwidth and low latency, with the ability to use AWS tools […]
Improving website performance with Lightsail Content Delivery Network
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 […]
Integrating Amazon EventBridge and Amazon ECS
This post demonstrates how to set up a sample application for consuming events directly from EventBridge into a custom application hosted in ECS.









