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This post describes the SMS sandbox in SNS. It shows how you can configure the SMS sandbox features, quotas, and how you can move out of the sandbox. 

Effective June 1, 2021, US telecom providers require one of the following types of origination numbers be used for application-to-person (A2P) text messaging (SMS) to US destinations: Short codes 10-digit long codes (10DLC) Toll-free numbers An origination number is a numeric string that identifies the SMS message sender. This blog post explains how customers using […]

In this post, I introduce the Alleycat racing application for processing streaming data. I explain the virtual racing logic and provide an overview of the application architecture. I summarize the deployment process for the different parts of the solution and show how to test the frontend once the deployment is complete.

This post is written by Joerg Woehrle, AWS Solutions Architect On November 30, 2020 AWS announced the availability of Amazon EC2 Mac instances. EC2 Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and built on Apple Mac mini computers. This blog post focuses on the specific best practices of building custom AMIs for EC2 […]

AWS Lambda extensions are a new way to integrate Lambda more easily with your favorite monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools. With the general availability announcement, AWS is introducing performance and functionality improvements. The Lambda service now returns the response from the function as soon as the function code is complete without waiting for the […]

This post is written by Brian Zambrano, Enterprise Solutions Architect and Srinivasa Atta, Sr. Technical Account Manager With microservice architectures, multiple teams within an organization often build different parts of an application. Different teams may own functionality for a given business segment. An effective pattern to support this is a centrally managed public API. This […]

Using Amazon EventBridge, you can now route events between different event buses in the same Region and same AWS account. Combined with the ability to route events cross-Region, this provides you with significant flexibility in routing events in your workloads. This blog post explains how to use event routing and walks through ways you can […]

This post is courtesy of Stephen Liedig, Sr Serverless Specialist SA. AWS Step Functions now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to provide a simpler solution for producing events during a workflow. Step Functions allows you to build resilient serverless orchestration workflows with AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, Amazon DynamoDB, and more. Step Functions […]

This post is written by Benjamin Meyer, Solutions Architect at AWS With Amazon EC2 Mac instances, AWS customers can run macOS workloads on AWS and benefit from the scale, elasticity, reliability, and experience of AWS. With EC2 Mac instances, it’s possible to bootstrap macOS machines in the cloud and use these for building, testing, and […]

The recently launched Serverless Patterns Collection is a repository of serverless examples that demonstrate integrating two or more AWS services. Each pattern uses either the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) or AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). These simplify the creation and configuration of the services referenced. The Serverless Patterns Collection is both an educational […]