AWS Compute Blog

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Stephan HadingerSr Mgr, Solutions Architecture Mathieu Cadet Account Representative NOTE: It was recently brought to our attention that this post contains instructions that reference a now deprecated Lambda blueprint. We are in the process of updating this post to correct this. A […]

Jeremy Cowan, AWS Solutions Architect Efrain Fuentes, Enterprise Solutions Architect Introduction   Dynamic registration of resource records is useful when you have instances that are not behind a load balancer that you would like to address by a host name and domain suffix of your choosing, rather than the default <region>.compute.internal or ec2.internal. In this […]

We have a guest blog post today from our friend Patrick Brandt at The Coca‑Cola Company. Patrick and his team have open-sourced an innovative use of Docker containers to encourage rapid local development and testing for applications that use AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB.   Using Cloudmicro to build AWS Lambda and DynamoDB applications on your laptop […]

Vyom Nagrani, Sr. Product Manager, AWS Lambda We’re happy to announce that you can now build and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in the Frankfurt region. Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SNS, Amazon DynamoDB Streams, Amazon CloudWatch Events, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, and Amazon API Gateway are available as event sources […]

This post is written by Andrew Baird, AWS Solutions Architect. Amazon API Gateway has a feature that enables customers to create their own API definitions directly in front of an AWS service API. This tutorial will walk you through an example of doing so with Amazon DynamoDB. You can use the solution described here in […]

Puneet Agarwal, AWS Solution Architect   With the addition of the Scheduled Events feature, you can now set up AWS Lambda to invoke your code on a regular, scheduled basis. You can now schedule various AWS API activities in your account (such as creation or deletion of CloudFormation stacks, EBS volume snapshots, etc.) with AWS […]

Today Amazon API Gateway is launching custom request authorizers. With custom request authorizers, developers can authorize their APIs using bearer token authorization strategies, such as OAuth using an AWS Lambda function. For each incoming request, API Gateway verifies whether a custom authorizer is configured, and if so, API Gateway calls the Lambda function with the […]

Maitreya Ranganath, AWS Solutions Architect Changes to APIs are always risky, especially if changes are made in ways that are not backward compatible. In this blog post, we show you how to use Amazon API Gateway mapping templates to isolate your API consumers from API changes. This enables your API consumers to migrate to new […]

My colleague Drew Dennis sent a nice guest post that shows how to use Amazon ECS with Spot fleet. — There are advantages to using on-demand EC2 instances. However, for many workloads, such as stateless or task-based scenarios that simply run as long as they need to run and are easily replaced with subsequent identical […]

Today, we launched two improvements that make it easier to run Docker-enabled applications on 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. The first improvement allows more flexible deployments. […]