AWS Compute Blog
Category: Technical How-to
Creating an EC2 instance in the AWS Wavelength Zone
Creating an EC2 instance in the AWS Wavelength Zone This blog post is contributed by Saravanan Shanmugam, Lead Solution Architect, AWS Wavelength AWS announced Wavelength at re:Invent 2019 in partnership with Verizon in US, SK Telecom in South Korea, KDDI in Japan, and Vodafone in UK and Europe. Following the re:Invent 2019 announcement, on August […]
Using Lambda layers to simplify your development process
Lambda layers provide a convenient and effective way to package code libraries for sharing with Lambda functions in your account. Using layers can help reduce the size of uploaded archives and make it faster to deploy your code.
Using serverless backends to iterate quickly on web apps – part 2
This post focuses on the business logic layer of the Happy Path application. I introduce Step Functions and show how you can use Amazon States Languages (ASL) to define state machines.
Using serverless backends to iterate quickly on web apps – part 1
In this post, I introduce the Happy Path example web application. I show the main features of the application, enabling end-users to upload maps and photos to the backend application.
Folding@home infectious disease research with Spot Instances
This post was contributed by Jarman Hauser, Jessie Xie, and Kinnar Kumar Sen. Folding@home (FAH) is a distributed computing project that uses computational modeling to simulate protein structure, stability, and shape (how it folds). These simulations help to advance drug discoveries and cures for diseases linked to protein dynamics within human cells. The FAH software crowdsources its distributed […]
Using Amazon MSK as an event source for AWS Lambda
Now Lambda supports Amazon MSK as an event source, you can invoke Lambda functions from messages in Kafka topics to integrate into your downstream serverless workflows.
TensorFlow Serving on Kubernetes with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
This post is contributed by Kinnar Sen – Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, EC2 Spot TensorFlow (TF) is a popular choice for machine learning research and application development. It’s a machine learning (ML) platform, which is used to build (train) and deploy (serve) machine learning models. TF Serving is a part of TF framework and is […]
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 […]
Understanding database options for your serverless web applications
Web developers commonly use relational databases in building their applications. When migrating to serverless architectures, a web developer can continue to use databases like RDS, or take advantage of other options available.
Building a serverless tokenization solution to mask sensitive data
This post shows how to use AWS Serverless services to design a secure, reliable, and cost-optimized tokenization solution. It can be integrated with applications to protect sensitive information and manage access using strict controls with less operational overhead.