AWS Compute Blog

Category: Storage

Securing Amazon S3 presigned URLs for serverless applications

This blog demonstrates how to leverage Amazon S3 presigned URLs to allow your users to securely upload files to S3 without requiring explicit permissions in the AWS Account. This blog post specifically focuses on the security ramifications of using S3 presigned URLs, and explains mitigation steps that serverless developers can take to improve the security of their systems using S3 presigned URLs.

Serverless calendar Q1 2025

Serverless ICYMI 2025 Q1

Welcome to the 28th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. At the end of a quarter, we share the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, videos, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out […]

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Optimizing network footprint in serverless applications

This post is authored by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solution Architect, AWS Serverless and Daniel Abib, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Serverless application developers may commonly encounter scenarios where they need to transport large payloads, especially when building modern cloud applications that need rich data. Examples include analytics services with detailed reports, e-commerce platforms with extensive […]

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Introducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Lambda developers

AWS Lambda is introducing an enhanced local IDE experience to simplify Lambda-based application development. The new features help developers to author, build, debug, test, and deploy Lambda applications more efficiently in their local IDE when using Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Overview The IDE experience is part of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. […]

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AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs

This post is written by James Ngai, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda, and Aneel Murari, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Lambda is announcing new recursive loop detection APIs that allow you to set recursive loop detection configuration on individual Lambda functions. This allows you to turn off recursive loop detection on functions that intentionally use […]

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Using Amazon APerf to go from 50% below to 36% above performance target

This post is written by Tyler Jones, Senior Solutions Architect – Graviton, AWS. Performance tuning the Renaissance Finagle-http benchmark Sometimes software doesn’t perform the way it’s expected to across different systems. This can be due to a configuration error, code bug, or differences in hardware performance. Amazon APerf is a powerful tool designed to help […]

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Serverless ICYMI Q2 2024

Welcome to the 26th 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, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]

DR from on-premises to Outposts

Architecting for Disaster Recovery on AWS Outposts Racks with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

This blog post is written by Brianna Rosentrater, Hybrid Edge Specialist SA. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery (DR) architectures that include on-premises Windows and Linux workloads running on AWS Outposts. AWS DRS minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, […]

Generative AI Infrastructure at AWS

Building and training generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, as well as predicting and providing accurate and insightful outputs requires a significant amount of infrastructure. There’s a lot of data that goes into generating the high-quality synthetic text, images, and other media outputs that large-language models (LLMs), as well as foundational models (FMs), create. To start, […]

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Hibernating EC2 Instances in Response to a CloudWatch Alarm

This blog post is written by Jose Guay, Technical Account Manger, Enterprise Support.  A typical option to reduce costs associated with running Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances is to stop them when they are idle. However, there are scenarios where stopping an idle instance is not practical. For example, instances with development environments […]