AWS Compute Blog
Category: Serverless
Creating a serverless Apache Kafka publisher using AWS Lambda
In this post, you learn how to create a serverless integration Lambda function between API Gateway and Apache Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). We show how to deploy such an integration with the CDK.
Simplifying serverless best practices with AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript
This blog post is written by Sara Gerion, Senior Solutions Architect. Development teams must have a shared understanding of the workloads they own and their expected behaviors to deliver business value fast and with confidence. The AWS Well-Architected Framework and its Serverless Lens provide architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective […]
Optimizing Node.js dependencies in AWS Lambda
In this post, you learn how to improve Node.js cold start performance by up to 70% by bundling and minifying your code. You also learned how to provide a different version of AWS SDK for JavaScript and that dependencies and how they are imported affects the performance of Node.js Lambda functions. To achieve the best performance, use AWS SDK V3, bundle and minify your code, and avoid top-level imports.
ICYMI: Serverless Q2 2022
Welcome to the 18th 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 […]
Introducing the new AWS Step Functions Workflows Collection
Today, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team introduces the Step Functions Workflows Collection, a fresh experience that makes it easier to discover, deploy, and share Step Functions workflows. Builders create Step Functions workflows to orchestrate multiple services into business-critical applications with minimal code. Customers were looking for opinionated templates that implement best practices for building […]
Building a low-code speech “you know” counter using AWS Step Functions
This post is written by Doug Toppin, Software Development Engineer, and Kishore Dhamodaran, Solutions Architect. In public speaking, filler phrases can distract the audience and reduce the value and impact of what you are telling them. Reviewing recordings of presentations can be helpful to determine whether presenters are using filler phrases. Instead of manually reviewing […]
Orchestrating AWS Glue crawlers using AWS Step Functions
This blog post is written by Justin Callison, General Manager, AWS Workflow. Organizations generate terabytes of data every day in a variety of semistructured formats. AWS Glue and Amazon Athena can give you a simpler and more cost-effective way to analyze this data with no infrastructure to manage. AWS Glue crawlers identify the schema of […]
Sending Amazon EventBridge events to private endpoints in a VPC
Event-driven architectures and EventBridge can help you accelerate feature velocity and build scalable, fault tolerant applications. This post demonstrates how to send EventBridge events to a private endpoint in a VPC using a Lambda function to relay events and emit response events.
Managing multi-tenant APIs using Amazon API Gateway
This post covers the API Gateway usage plan feature to protect multi-tenant APIs from excessive request loads and also as a product offering that enforces customer specific usage quotas.
Combining Amazon AppFlow with AWS Step Functions to maximize application integration benefits
This blog post explores how to integrate Amazon AppFlow and AWS Glue using Step Functions to automate your business requirements. You can use AWS Lambda to simplify the configuration phase and reduce state transitions or create complex checks, filters, or even data cleansing and preparation.