AWS Compute Blog

Continuous Deployment for Serverless Applications

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 […]

Serverless at re:Invent 2016 – Wrap-up

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 […]

Amazon EC2 Container Service at AWS re:Invent 2016 – Wrap-up

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 […]

Robust Serverless Application Design with AWS Lambda Dead Letter Queues

Gene Ting, Solutions Architect AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that allows developers to bring their functions to the cloud easily. A key challenge that Lambda developers often face is to create solutions that handle exceptions and failures gracefully. Some examples include: Notifying operations support when a function fails with context Sending jobs […]

Announcing C# Support for AWS Lambda

Today, we’re excited to announce C# as a supported language for AWS Lambda! Using the new, open source .NET Core 1.0 runtime, you can easily publish C# code to AWS Lambda from a variety of popular .NET tools. .NET developers can now build Lambda functions and serverless applications with the C# language and .NET tools […]

Automated Cleanup of Unused Images in Amazon ECR

Thanks to my colleague Anuj Sharma for a great blog on cleaning up old images in Amazon ECR using AWS Lambda. —- When you use Amazon ECR as part of a container build and deployment pipeline, a new image is created and pushed to ECR on every code change. As a result, repositories tend to […]

Create and Manage Clusters on the Amazon ECS Console

We recently added three Amazon ECS console improvements to help you create and manage clusters. Resource provisioning The first change is a wizard for creating clusters that takes care of provisioning all the resources required by the cluster such as the Auto Scaling group, VPC, subnets, and security group. You can also choose to use […]