AWS Compute Blog
Optimizing Joining Windows Server Instances to a Domain with PowerShell in AWS CloudFormation
Scott Zimmerman AWS Solutions Architect Deploying applications with Active Directory, including Microsoft SharePoint Server and custom .NET applications, can take several minutes and possibly even hours. My colleague Julien Lépine wrote an excellent post, Optimize AWS CloudFormation Templates, about parallelizing Amazon EC2 instance creation in AWS CloudFormation. His post shows a general technique for using […]
Going Serverless: Migrating an Express Application to Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda
Brett Andrews Software Development Engineer Amazon API Gateway recently released three new features that simplify the process of forwarding HTTP requests to your integration endpoint: greedy path variables, the ANY method, and proxy integration types. With this new functionality, it becomes incredibly easy to run HTTP applications in a serverless environment by leveraging the aws-serverless-express […]
Easier integration with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway
This week, Amazon API Gateway announced three new features that make it easier for you to leverage API Gateway and AWS Lambda to build your serverless applications. First, we now support catch-all path variables. You can define routes such as /store/{proxy+}, where the + symbol tells API Gateway to intercept all requests to the /store/* […]
Techniques and Tools for Better Serverless API Logging with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda
Ryan Green @ryangtweets Software Development Engineer, API Gateway Developing, testing, and operating Serverless APIs using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda can be made much easier with built-in support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs. In Lambda functions, you can use log statements to send log events to CloudWatch log streams, and API Gateway automatically submits log […]
Migrating a Native JAVA REST API to a Serverless Architecture with the Lambada Framework for AWS
NOTE: Newer guidance on the topic of migrating Java based applications to AWS Lambda can be found here: Replatforming Java based applications to AWS Lambda. This is a guest post by Çağatay Gürtürk, the creator of the Lambada framework Serverless computing has become a hot topics since AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway started to […]
Maintaining a Healthy Email Database with AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, and Amazon DynamoDB
Carlos SanchizSr. Solutions Architect Mike DeckPartner Solutions Architect Reputation in the email world is critical to achieve reasonable deliverability rates (the percentage of emails that arrive to inboxes); if you fall under certain levels, your emails end up in the spam folder or rejected by the email servers. To keep these numbers high, you have […]
Authenticating Amazon ECR Repositories for Docker CLI with Credential Helper
This is a guest post from my colleagues Ryosuke Iwanaga and Prahlad Rao. ———————— Developers building and managing microservices and containerized applications using Docker containers require a secure, scalable repository to store and manage Docker images. In order to securely access the repository, proper authentication from the Docker client to the repository is important, but […]
Centralized Container Logs with Amazon ECS and Amazon CloudWatch Logs
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Containers make it easy to package and share applications but they often run on a shared cluster. So how do you access your application logs for debugging? Fortunately, Docker provides a log driver that lets you send container logs to […]
A Data Sharing Platform Based on AWS Lambda
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Julien Lepine Solutions Architect As developers, one of our top priorities is to build reliable systems; this is a core pillar of the AWS Well Architected Framework. A common pattern to fulfill this goal is to have an architecture built […]
Implementing a Serverless AWS IoT Backend with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB
Ed Lima Cloud Support Engineer Does your IoT device fleet scale to hundreds or thousands of devices? Do you find it somewhat challenging to retrieve the details for multiple devices? AWS IoT provides a platform to connect those devices and build a scalable solution for your Internet of Things workloads. Out of the box, the […]