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UPDATE: May 29, 2018 – This post includes a small amount of sample code illustrating a pattern for lazily generating assets using AWS Lambda and Amazon S3. If you’re looking to deploy a service to resize images to production, consider using the Serverless Image Handler which is a robust solution to handle image manipulation and can […]

This is a guest post from Nathan Mehl, Site Reliability Engineering Manager at The Climate Corporation. — The Climate Corporation aims to help all the world’s farmers sustainably increase their productivity through the use of digital tools. The integrated Climate FieldView™ digital agriculture platform provides farmers with a comprehensive, connected suite of digital tools. Bringing […]

Update 24 Aug 2023: The approach described in this post relies on a recursive AWS Lambda function. Lambda announced a recursion control to detect and stop Lambda functions in July 2023. Accounts having recursive Lambda functions were automatically opted-out during the launch, we recommend contacting AWS Support to disable the Lambda feature to use this […]

Sunil Mallya, Solutions Architect Building AI solutions at scale can be challenging, in this blog we’ll look at how to leverage AWS Lambda and MXNet to build a scalable prediction pipeline. Companies that leverage machine and deep learning invest in much more than just training models. They have sophisticated pipelines that include the following stages: […]

Thanks to my colleague John Pignata for a great blog on how to create a continuous deployment pipeline to Amazon ECS. — Delivering new iterations of software at a high velocity is a competitive advantage in today’s business environment. The speed at which organizations can deliver innovations to customers and adapt to changing markets is […]

Today, Amazon ECS announced capabilities that provide granular control over how tasks are placed onto clusters. Previously, if you needed to place a task on a container instance with specific resource requirements (e.g., a specific instance type), you would have had to write custom schedulers to filter, find, and group resources. The following diagram outlines […]

Stephen Liedig, Solutions Architect Customers are using AWS Lambda in new and interesting ways every day, from data processing of Amazon S3 objects, Amazon DynamoDB streams, and Amazon Kinesis triggers, to providing back-end processing logic for Amazon API Gateway. In this post, I explore ways in which you can use Lambda as a policy engine […]

With a continuous deployment infrastructure, developers can quickly and safely release new features and bug fixes for their applications without manually triggering any deployment scripts. Amazon Web Services offers a number of products that make the creation of deployment pipelines easier: AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuild – newly launched A typical serverless application consists […]

The re:Invent 2016 conference was an exciting week to be working on serverless at AWS. We announced new features like support for C# and dead letter queues, and launched new application constructs with Lambda such as Lambda@Edge, AWS Greengrass, Amazon Lex, and AWS Step Functions. In addition we also added support for surfacing services built […]

We wanted to summarize a few of the highlights from this year’s AWS re:Invent. Announcements On Thursday December 1, Werner Vogels announced two new features for Amazon ECS. Blox is a new open source project that enables users to build custom schedulers and other tooling on top of Amazon ECS. Our goal with Blox is […]