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Operating Lambda: Logging and custom metrics
Many existing monitoring and observability concepts also apply to Lambda-based applications. This post introduces key terms, application performance monitoring, with broad metrics can be useful for monitoring workloads.
ICYMI: Serverless Q1 2021
All the feature launches, blogs, videos, tech talks and more happenings from the AWS Serverless service teams in Q1 2021.
Using multiple segments in Amazon API Gateway base path mapping
Amazon API Gateway recently enhanced base path mapping for custom domains by introducing multi-level base path mapping. Before multi-level base path mapping, paths could not contain a forward slash (/) in a base path. This restriction meant that base paths could only consist of a single word (for example, sales) or a concatenation of several […]
Handling binary data using Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs
This post is written by Rudolf Potucek, Startup Solutions Architect. Amazon API Gateway REST APIs have supported binary data since 2016. API Gateway HTTP APIs makes it easier to work with both binary and text media types. It supports a new payload format version and infers encoding based on request and response formats. In this […]
Federating CloudEndure access with Microsoft Azure Active Directory
In this post, you learn how to grant Azure Active Directory users Single Sign-On access to the CloudEndure console. You can now create multiple enterprise applications for different CloudEndure accounts. You can use the guide in this post to assign CloudEndure projects or accounts to users.
Operating Lambda: Using CloudWatch Logs Insights
CloudWatch Logs Insights allows you to search and analyze log data to find the causes of issues and help validate fixes when they are deployed. This post shows how to enable the feature for a Lambda function and search across logs. It explains why structured logging can be helpful for parsing data in analysis.
Integrating AWS Step Functions callbacks and external systems
This article presents an architecture that enables customers to use Step Functions workflow callbacks without exposing the implementation and AWS service details to external systems.
Announcing end of support for Python 2.7 in AWS Lambda
On July 15, 2021, AWS Lambda will deprecate Python 2.7 as a supported runtime, formally ending our Python 2.7 support.
Operating Lambda: Debugging configurations – Part 3
This post explains common integration errors in Lambda-based applications. These include running an unintended version or alias of a function, triggering infinite loops unintentionally, and issues with downstream availability. In each case, I explain steps you can take to remediate the issue.
Building an image searching solution with the AWS CDK
This post discusses a fully serverless architecture for searching images based on their contents. It shows how this architecture is decoupled and stateless by using S3 events, SQS messages, an EventBridge bus, and Amazon Aurora Serverless.