AWS Open Source Blog

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Visit the website to learn more. This article is a guest post from AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui. In the first part of this two-part series, we looked at deployment frameworks and explored some of the best Serverless Framework plugins. We also […]

This article is a guest post from AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui. The mindset of a serverless developer is one of a minimalist: Don’t take on undifferentiated heavy-lifting, and leverage services as much as possible so we can focus on the things that actually differentiate our product and deliver value to our customers. In the […]

Dart is a fast growing open source programming language, and powers some rapidly growing open source projects, such as Flutter. Thanks to custom AWS Lambda runtimes, you can run Dart in AWS Lambda. Writing your functions in Dart enables you to use your skills to develop mobile applications to create serverless backends. You also can […]

In mid-2018, AWS began contributing to an exciting open source project, Spinnaker from Netflix. Spinnaker is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes rapidly and reliably. Spinnaker enables developers to focus on writing code and deploying their applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with tools such as […]

We are excited to announce that we are making new Open Distro for Elasticsearch security features available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is frequently used for sensitive enterprise workloads, and today’s launch adds multiple capabilities to give you even tighter control over your data. New features include the ability to use roles to […]

If your network architecture includes multiple route tables in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and you’ve been looking for an automated solution for synchronizing route target updates across route tables, check out the AWS Sync Routes project. Or, if you just want to explore a ready‑to‑deploy, serverless infrastructure as code project, then the AWS Sync Routes project can help here, too. This […]

Swift is a general-purpose programming language released by Apple in 2014. It aimed to provide many of the features of Objective-C, such as type safety, late binding, and dynamic dispatch, in a package that would improve developer productivity and code safety. Although Swift has been a popular replacement for Objective-C for iOS development, it is […]

  Yesterday we published a list of lists of just about everything that happened on this blog in 2019. But which of these posts did readers care most about? Today, as promised, we give you the year’s top ten blog posts. Five of our most-visited blog posts in 2019 were published in 2018, and several […]

Last year I published a list of the open source blog’s 2018’s top ten posts. This year I’m starting with a list of lists of things that happened on the AWS Open Source blog in 2019.   Launches We launched new projects, features, and project support: Open Distro for Elasticsearch (more info below) Amazon Introduces […]

Wrapping up our final summary, we kick off with a roundup of the open source updates in the area of compute and emerging technologies. We start with a great explanation of Fargate on Firecracker from Clare Ligouri during Werner Vogel’s keynote, and proceed to a broad selection of the container sessions and workshops that ran […]