AWS Compute Blog

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS San Francisco Summit 2015 Lots of exciting news last week in San Francisco around Event Computing and container computing. Andy Jassy keynote, including Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda GA announcements In summit the keynote, Andy Jassy announces that the Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda services are both now generally available […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda Using Amazon SNS to Trigger Lambda Functions Sending messages to SNS can now also trigger Lambda functions, allowing you to add arbitrary compute capabilities to any service or application that knows how to send messages, such as Amazon CloudWatch alarms. Intelligent IT: Triggering Code by Sending it Messages SNS is an […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda Now Generally Available AWS Lambda has exited preview and is now ready for production workloads! Increased Default Limits AWS Lambda is designed to scale to the size of your workload, whether that’s one request a month or 10,000 a second. As a safety precaution each account has two limits: […]

We would like to announce the general availability of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS). Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Running a container on a single machine demonstrates Docker’s power and […]

In previous blog posts, we have talked a lot about Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) as a way to run Docker containers in the cloud on AWS, but not as much has been said about the cluster management options exposed through the ECS API. Today we want to talk a bit about what cluster […]

At AWS re:Invent, we announced Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS), a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run distributed applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.. The service is currently available in preview to all AWS customers without any need to sign […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda CORS and Browser JavaScript Support for AWS Lambda AWS Lambda now supports CORS, making it easier to call Lambda functions from browser JavaScript code. The default hosted package of the AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser now also includes the AWS Lambda APIs by default — check out Working with […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda Bryan Liston, AWS Solutions Architect In this post we take a look at how to use custom nodejs packages with AWS Lambda, including building and packaging native nodejs modules for use in your Lambda functions. To do the steps below, you’ll need an EC2 instance or a similar machine running Amazon […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda functions execute in a container (sandbox) that isolates them from other functions and provides the resources, such as memory, specified in the function’s configuration. In this article we discuss how Lambda creates and reuses these sandboxes, and the impact of those policies on the programming model. Startup The first […]

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS re:Invent 2014 Recap The 2014 re:Invent conference was an exciting venue for us to launch new compute-related services and features, including the Amazon EC2 Container Service, which supports Docker containers and lets you easily run distributed applications on a managed cluster of EC2 instances, and AWS Lambda, a new compute […]