AWS Compute Blog
Building deep learning inference with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS
This post shows how you can use EFS for Lambda to deploy large DL libraries and models into a function for synchronous invocations.
The AWS Serverless Application Model CLI is now generally available
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. Built on AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM provides shorthand syntax to declare serverless resources. During deployment, AWS SAM transforms the serverless resources into CloudFormation syntax, enabling you to build serverless applications faster. As a companion to AWS SAM, the AWS SAM […]
Modeling business logic flows in serverless applications
Serverless applications can help you develop more agile applications that can scale automatically. By using serverless services in your architecture, this reduces the amount of boilerplate code. It also helps offload complex tasks to specialized services. As a result, a well-designed serverless application can be modified easily to deliver new feature requests, while maintaining high […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q2 2020
Welcome to the 10th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, checkout what happened […]
Must-know best practices for Amazon EBS encryption
This blog post covers common encryption workflows on Amazon EBS. Examples of these workflows are: setting up permissions policies, creating encrypted EBS volumes, running Amazon EC2 instances, taking snapshots, and sharing your encrypted data using customer-managed CMK. Introduction Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) service provides high-performance block-level storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances. Customers […]
Improving performance of PHP for Arm64 and impact on AWS Graviton2 based EC2 instances
This post is contributed by Sebastian Pop, Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services. AWS recently launched the Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by the AWS Graviton2 processors. Compared to similar-sized M5 instances, Graviton2 based instances provide up to 40% better price performance on several open-source application stacks. This blog discusses how AWS […]
The Serverless LAMP stack part 3: Replacing the web server
Update: The complete blog series and supporting GitHub repository is now available: Part 1: Introducing the new Serverless LAMP stack Part 2: Scaling relational databases Part 3: Replacing the web server Part 4: Building a serverless Laravel application Part 5: The CDK construct library for the serverless LAMP stack Part 6: From MVC to serverless […]
Building an electronic security lock using serverless
In this guide I show how to build an electronic security lock for package delivery, securing physical documents, or granting access to a secret lab. This project uses AWS Serverless to create a touchscreen keypad lock that uses SMS to alert a recipient with a custom message and unlock code. Files are included for the […]
Creating low-latency, high-volume APIs with Provisioned Concurrency
This post examines how cold starts impact performance in serverless backends for web applications. It shows how the most important focus area is usually synchronous APIs called by the frontend application. I explain options available for targeting cold starts in the Lambda service.
Integrating Amazon EventBridge and Amazon ECS
This post demonstrates how to set up a sample application for consuming events directly from EventBridge into a custom application hosted in ECS.








