AWS Compute Blog
Configuring private integrations with Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs
This post was written by Michael Hume – AWS Solutions Architect Public Sector UKIR. Customers often want to use Amazon API Gateway REST APIs to send requests to private resources. This feature is useful for building secure architectures using Amazon EC2 instances or container-based services on Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, which reside within a […]
Node.js 14.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda
You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 14.x runtime. This is the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Node.js. Start using this new version today by specifying a runtime parameter value of nodejs14.x when creating or updating functions or by using the appropriate managed runtime base image. Language Updates Node.js 14 is a […]
Operating Lambda: Application design and Service Quotas – Part 1
Lambda works with other AWS services to process and manage requests and data. This post explains how to understand and manage Service Quotas, when to request increases, and architecting with quotas in mind. It also explains how to control traffic for downstream server-based resources.
Building server-side rendering for React in AWS Lambda
This post demonstrates two ways you can implement and deploy a solution for server-side rendering in React applications, by using Lambda or Lambda@Edge. It also shows how to use open-source tools and AWS CDK to automate the building and deployment of such applications.
Running cost optimized Spark workloads on Kubernetes using EC2 Spot Instances
This post is written by Kinnar Sen, Senior Solutions Architect, EC2 Spot Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed processing system used for big data workloads. It provides API operations to perform multiple tasks such as streaming, extract transform load (ETL), query, machine learning (ML), and graph processing. Spark supports four different types of cluster managers (Spark standalone, Apache […]
Building a Jenkins Pipeline with AWS SAM
This post is courtesy of Tarun Kumar Mall, SDE at AWS. This post shows how to set up a multi-stage pipeline on a Jenkins host for a serverless application, using the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). Overview This tutorial uses Jenkins Pipeline plugin. A commit to the main branch of the repository starts and […]
Operating Lambda: Anti-patterns in event-driven architectures – Part 3
This post discusses anti-pattern in event-driven architectures using Lambda. I show some of the issues when using monolithic Lambda functions or using custom code to orchestrate workflows. I explain how to avoid recursive architectures that cause loops and why you should avoid functions calling functions.
How to monitor Windows and Linux servers and get internal performance metrics
This post was written by Dean Suzuki, Solution Architect Manager. Customers who run Windows or Linux instances on AWS frequently ask, “How do I know if my disks are almost full?” or “How do I know if my application is using all the available memory and is paging to disk?” This blog helps answer these […]
Building PHP Lambda functions with Docker container images
At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced that you can package and deploy AWS Lambda functions as container images. Packaging AWS Lambda functions as container images brings some notable benefits for developers running custom runtimes, such as PHP. This blog post explains those benefits and shows how to use the new container image support for Lambda functions […]
Operating Lambda: Design principles in event-driven architectures – Part 2
This post discusses the design principles that can help you develop well-architected serverless applications. I explain why using services instead of code can help improve your application’s agility and scalability. I also show how statelessness and function design also contribute to good application architecture.