Tag: Amazon API Gateway

This post courtesy of Heitor Lessa, AWS Specialist Solutions Architect – Serverless In Part 1 of this blog, we described how to protect your API provided by Amazon API Gateway using AWS WAF. In this blog, we show how to use API keys between an Amazon CloudFront distribution and API Gateway to secure access to […]

This post courtesy of Diego Natali, AWS Solutions Architect Customers often have multiple teams working on APIs. They might have separate teams working on individual API functionality, and another handling secure access control. You can now use an AWS Lambda function from a different AWS account as your API integration backend. Cross-account Lambda authorizers allow […]

This post courtesy of Tapodipta Ghosh, AWS Solutions Architect Amazon API Gateway provides you with a simple, flexible, secure, and fully managed service that lets you focus on building core business services. API Gateway supports multiple mechanisms of access control using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Lambda authorizers, and Amazon Cognito. You may […]

One of the biggest trends in application development today is the use of APIs to power the backend technologies supporting a product. Increasingly, the way mobile, IoT, web applications, or internal services talk to each other and to application frontends is using some API interface. Alongside this trend of building API-powered applications is the move […]

This post courtesy of Thiago Morais, AWS Solutions Architect When you build web applications or expose any data externally, you probably look for a platform where you can build highly scalable, secure, and robust REST APIs. As APIs are publicly exposed, there are a number of best practices for providing a secure mechanism to consumers […]

This post courtesy of George Mao, AWS Senior Serverless Specialist – Solutions Architect AWS Lambda and AWS CodeDeploy recently made it possible to automatically shift incoming traffic between two function versions based on a preconfigured rollout strategy. This new feature allows you to gradually shift traffic to the new function. If there are any issues […]

This post courtesy of Paul Johnston, AWS Senior Developer Advocate – Serverless Welcome to the first edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (In case you missed it) quarterly recap! Every quarter we’ll share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have […]

At AWS, our customers have always been the motivation for our innovation. In turn, we’re committed to helping them accelerate the pace of their own innovation. It was in the spirit of helping our customers achieve their objectives faster that we launched AWS Lambda in 2014, eliminating the burden of server management and enabling AWS […]

This post courtesy of Michael Edge, Sr. Cloud Architect – AWS Professional Services Applications built using a microservices architecture typically result in a number of independent, loosely coupled microservices communicating with each other, synchronously via their APIs and asynchronously via events. These microservices are often owned by different product teams, and these teams may segregate their […]

The Twelve-Factor App methodology is twelve best practices for building modern, cloud-native applications. With guidance on things like configuration, deployment, runtime, and multiple service communication, the Twelve-Factor model prescribes best practices that apply to a diverse number of use cases, from web applications and APIs to data processing applications. Although serverless computing and AWS Lambda […]