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Tag: Python

Handling arbitrary HTTP requests in Amazon API Gateway

In this post, I walk you through the steps to build a serverless web application that can accept arbitrary HTTP requests and use custom logic to return arbitrary responses. The concepts in this post are applicable to any situation where you require flexible control over the HTTP requests received and returned by an application that uses […]

Announcing AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code has become an enormously popular tool for serverless developers, partly due to the intuitive user interface. It’s also because of the rich ecosystem of extensions that can customize and automate so much of the development experience. We are excited to announce that the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code extension is now […]

Getting started with the AWS Cloud Development Kit and Python

This post introduces you to the new Python bindings for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). What’s the AWS CDK, you might ask? Good question! You are probably familiar with the concept of infrastructure as code (IaC). When you think of IaC, you might think of things like AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation allows you […]

Introducing AWS X-Ray support for Python web frameworks used in Serverless applications

This is a guest post by Chan Chiem Jeffery Saeteurn. Jeffery is a Software Development Engineer on the AWS X-Ray SDK Team. He has fond interests in IoT, distributed systems, and crafting software to automate everyday tasks. Announcing AWS X-Ray SDK for Python support for instrumenting web frameworks deployed in serverless applications! Serverless is an […]

Chalice – 1.0.0 GA Release

We’re excited to announce the 1.0.0 GA (Generally Available) release of Chalice! Chalice is an open source serverless microframework that enables you to create and maintain application backends with a variety of AWS resources. These include: AWS Lambda Amazon API Gateway AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Amazon Cognito Amazon CloudWatch Amazon CloudWatch Events AWS […]

Chalice Version 1.0.0b1 Is Now Available

We’ve just released Chalice version 1.0.0b1, the first preview release of Chalice 1.0.0. Since our last post that showcased the 0.9.0 release we’ve added numerous features we’re excited to share with you. Support for built in authorizers. In earlier versions of Chalice, you could integrate a custom authorizer with your Chalice application. However, you had […]

Chalice Version 0.9.0 is Now Available

The latest preview version of Chalice, our microframework for Python serverless application development, is now available. This release includes a couple of commonly requested features: Binary content type support. Chalice now automatically configures support for binary payloads in Amazon API Gateway. Configuration options for AWS Lambda functions. You can now configure the amount of memory, […]

Build and Deploy a Serverless REST API in Minutes Using Chalice

Chalice is a serverless microframework that makes it simple for you to use AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway to build serverless apps. We’ve improved Chalice based on community feedback from GitHub, and we’re eager for you to take our latest version for a spin. Hopefully, you’ll find Chalice a fast and effective way to […]

Using Python and Amazon SQS FIFO Queues to Preserve Message Sequencing

Thanks to Alexandre Pinhel, Solutions Architect from our team for writing this post! Amazon SQS is a managed message queuing service that makes it simple to decouple application components. We recently announced an entirely new queue type, SQS FIFO (first-in, first out) queues with exactly-once processing and deduplication. SQS FIFO queues are now available in […]

Chalice Version 0.6.0 is Now Available

The latest preview version of Chalice, our microframework for Python serverless application development, now includes a couple of commonly requested features: Customizing the HTTP response. A new Response class, chalice.Response, enables you to customize the HTTP response by specifying the status code, body, and a mapping of HTTP headers to return. The tutorial in the […]