AWS Compute Blog
AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts, choosing the right technology for your edge workload
This blog post is written by Joe Sacco, Senior Technical Account Manager. The AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure includes 30 Launched Regions, 96 Availability Zones (AZs), 410+ Points of Presence with 400+ Edge Locations, and 13 Regional Edge Caches. With over 200 AWS services, most customer workloads can run in the AWS Regions. However, for some […]
Visualize and create your serverless workloads with AWS Application Composer
This post is written by Luca Mezzalira, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect. Today, AWS is launching a preview of AWS Application Composer, a visual designer that you can use to build your serverless applications from multiple AWS services. In distributed systems, empowering teams is a cultural shift needed for enabling developers to help translate business capabilities […]
Introducing new AWS Serverless digital learning badges
The AWS Serverless Learning Plan and digital badge are available now. All courses are available on-demand. Both the learning plan courses and the assessment are free for everyone.
Reducing Java cold starts on AWS Lambda functions with SnapStart
At AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS announced SnapStart for AWS Lambda functions running on Java Corretto 11. This feature enables customers to achieve up to 10x faster function startup performance for Java functions, at no additional cost, and typically with minimal or no code changes.
Starting up faster with AWS Lambda SnapStart
This blog written by Tarun Rai Madan, Sr. Product Manager, AWS Lambda, Mike Danilov, Sr. Principal Engineer, AWS Lambda, and Colm MacCárthaigh, VP/Distinguished Engineer, EC2. AWS Lambda SnapStart is a new performance optimization developed by AWS that can significantly improve the startup time for applications. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, the first capability to feature […]
Monitoring shared AWS Outposts rack capacity
This post is written by Adam Imeson, Sr. Hybrid Edge Specialist Solutions Architect. AWS Outposts rack is a fully-managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, APIs, tools, and a subset of AWS services to any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility for a consistent hybrid experience. Outposts rack is ideal for workloads that […]
Introducing payload-based message filtering for Amazon SNS
This post is written by Prachi Sharma (Software Development Manager, Amazon SNS), Mithun Mallick (Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Integration Services), and Otavio Ferreira (Sr. Software Development Manager, Amazon SNS). Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a messaging service for Application-to-Application (A2A) and Application-to-Person (A2P) communication. The A2A functionality provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed […]
Our guide to AWS Compute at re:Invent 2022
This blog post is written by Shruti Koparkar, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Amazon EC2. AWS re:Invent is the most transformative event in cloud computing and it is starting on November 28, 2022. AWS Compute team has many exciting sessions planned for you covering everything from foundational content, to technology deep dives, customer stories, and even […]
ICYMI: Serverless pre:Invent 2022
During the last few weeks, the AWS serverless team has been releasing a wave of new features in the build-up to AWS re:Invent 2022. This post recaps some of the most important releases for serverless developers building event-driven applications. AWS Lambda Lambda Support for Node.js 18 You can now develop Lambda functions using the Node.js 18 […]
Introducing container, database, and queue utilization metrics for the Amazon MWAA environment
This post is written by Uma Ramadoss (Senior Specialist Solutions Architect), and Jeetendra Vaidya (Senior Solutions Architect). Today, AWS is announcing the availability of container, database, and queue utilization metrics for Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA). This is a new collection of metrics published by Amazon MWAA in addition to existing Apache […]








