Resources
Learn more about building modern applications through blogs, tutorials, white papers, and more.
Modernization
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Customer stories
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Tech talk
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Blog posts
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The Amazon Builders' Library
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Book
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Modernization Fluency Assessment
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Customer stories
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Fireside Chat: Ellie Mae Discusses Modernization & Their Adoption of Serverless (15:00)
Learn more about Ellie Mae's modernization journey, including how they select technology, and their view on vendor lock-in.
Fireside Chat: Petco Discusses Modernization & Their Adoption of Serverless (25:47)Learn how Petco got started with serverless, some of the resistance they faced, and how they overcame that to operate faster than ever.
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Tech talk
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Building Modern Applications at AWS
In this tech talk, we will outline how we define modern applications, and how building modern apps impacts not just your application architecture, but your organizational structure, your development release pipelines, and even your operational model.
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Blog posts
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Minimal Viable Refactoring: The 5 Best Ways to Improve Your App on the Way to the Cloud
In this blog, we cover the lessons that we have learned through our AWS Managed Services program, working with customers to prepare their systems to be well-operated in the cloud.
Continuous Transformation: Stop Stopping
The digital age is an age of continuous transformation and in this post we explore how to continue adjusting and adapting to the continuous nature of digital transformation.
Tackling Transformation…You CAN Get There from Here
In this blost post, we explore how to expand your aperture to take full advantage of all the cloud has to offer, which typically includes tackling your delivery and operations practices.
Modern Applications at AWS
In this post, AWS CTO Werner Vogels outlines the characteristics of modern applications using the transformation example of Amazon.com.
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The Amazon Builders' Library
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The Amazon Builders’ Library is a collection of living articles that describe how Amazon develops, architects, releases, and operates technology, as told by Amazon's senior technical builders.
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Book
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Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud
Learn from CTOs and Amazon leaders on their experiences in modernization and how to set your business up for success.
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Modernization Fluency Assessment
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Modernization Fluency Assessment
Take this 10-minute assessment to learn your company’s strengths and areas for improvement across six key areas of application modernization.
Serverless and Containers
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Customer videos
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Tech talks
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Learning paths
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Blog post
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Whitepapers
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Tutorial
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Customer videos
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Serverless & modernization with Cloud Conformity (4:03)Serverless & modernization with DAZN (4:02)Serverless & modernization with Fender (3:47)
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Tech talks
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Getting Started with AWS Lambda and Serverless Computing
In this tech talk, you will learn how to get started with serverless computing with AWS Lambda, which lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.
Optimizing Lambda Performance for Your Serverless Applications
In this tech talk, learn about some of the newest features that can optimize Lambda performance, including improved VPC networking and Provisioned Concurrency.
Using Fargate Spot to Optimize Costs for Serverless Containers
With the ability to leverage Spot on Fargate, customers can now get the price flexibility they are used to with EC2 but through a serverless operational model.
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Learning paths
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Build a Serverless Web App for a Theme Park
In this series of 5 one hour workshops, you’ll get hands on experience deploying a web application with serverless front and back end.
How to Use Objects in Amazon S3 to Trigger Automated Workflows Using AWS Lambda
In this series of 6 short videos you will learn to build distributed applications built around S3 events, using custom code to integrate with other AWS services.
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Blog post
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Building well-architected serverless applications: Introduction
Learn how to use the Well-Architected Tool and Serverless Lens can give you more visibility into your applications in this multi-part blog series.
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Whitepapers
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Serverless Application Lens
The paper covers common serverless application scenarios and identifies key elements to ensure your workloads are architected according to best practices.
Optimizing Enterprise Economics with Serverless Architectures
This whitepaper covers the basics of serverless approaches and the AWS serverless portfolio, including case studies that illustrate how companies are gaining significant agility and economic benefits.
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Tutorial
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Build a Modern Web Application
In this tutorial, you’ll build your first modern application on AWS using services like AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. This tutorial requires an AWS account and takes 2-3 hours to complete.
Integration
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Tech talks
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Blog posts
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Learning path
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Case study
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Tech talks
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AWS App Mesh Deep Dive with Amazon EKS
Learn about AWS App Mesh capabilities, as well as new features which enhance the security, observability, and resilience of container services.
Build GraphQL APIs with AWS Amplify and AWS AppSync
Learn the principles of building responsive web and mobile APIs using GraphQL APIs such as when to use transformers and subscriptions.
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Blog posts
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Simplifying application orchestration with AWS Step Functions and AWS SAM
Learn how to use AWS SAM to define workflows and to manage security permissions, event sources, and logging for your Step Functions workflows.
Building faster, lower cost, better APIs – HTTP APIs now generally available
Learn how to build APIS faster, lower cost, and simpler than ever.
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Learning path
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How to Use Amazon EventBridge to Build Decoupled, Event-Driven Architectures
In this series of 10 minute videos, you’ll get an overview of EventBridge, as well as the basics of event-driven architectures.
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Case study
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Visualizing real-time data for millions of devices with AWS AppSync
Learn how HyperTrack used AWS AppSync, a fully managed GraphQL API service, to enable real-time data processing for their live location tracking cloud platform.
Data management
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Tech talks
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Blog posts
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Learning path
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Whitepaper
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Tech talks
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Selecting the Right Database for your Application
Learn how to pick different database services to address specific application issues and watch a demonstration about which application use cases lend themselves well to which database services.
Running Mission-Critical Applications at Scale - Amazon DynamoDB Customer Stories
In this tech talk, we will discuss customer challenges and success stories and also share a few pro tips on how to effectively use DynamoDB.
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Blog posts
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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone
Werner Vogels' blog on the emergence of purpose-built databases and the evolution of the modern application workload, requiring increased functionality, performance, and scale.
Database Freedom: Let’s Take Off Our Database Blinders—For Good
The penalty of obsession with the relational database model is that as databases scale we sacrifice performance.
Understanding database options for your serverless web applications
Learn the best use-cases for different serverless database services, and common patterns useful for web applications.
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Learning path
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Getting started with DynamoDB
In this series of seven workshops, you'll learn how to get started with DynamoDB including creating your first table, using an SDK to manage your data & more.
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Whitepaper
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Persistent File Storage for Modern Applications
This paper discusses ways for developers and DevOps teams to utilize scalable, performant, and economical storage solutions from AWS for containers—whether traditionally provisioned or serverless.
Software delivery
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Tech talks
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Whitepapers
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Blog posts
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Learning path
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Tech talks
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Fireside Chat - DevOps at Amazon with Ken Exner, GM of AWS Developer Tools
Hear from a senior AWS leader on the tools that support its current DevOps model, lessons learned, and how we achieved better speed, agility and reliability in our software development.
Amazon CI/CD Practices for Software Development Teams
In this talk, we walk you through the practices we use for both the CI and the CD of software delivery using the AWS developer tool set.
Enhanced CI/CD with AWS CDK
Learn how to use the AWS Cloud Development Kit and AWS CodePipeline to create a construct library that makes it even easier to set up continuous delivery pipelines for your CDK applications.
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Whitepapers
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Infrastructure as Code
This paper describes the benefits of Infrastructure as Code, and how to leverage the capabilities of Amazon Web Services in this realm to support DevOps initiatives.
Practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on AWS
This paper explains the features and benefits of using continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and Amazon Web Services (AWS) tooling in your software development environment.
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Blog posts
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Building a Modern CI/CD Pipeline in the Serverless Era with GitOps
In this post, we discuss the transition to microservices and the different steps of modern software development to showcase the possible solutions for the serverless world.
Build a Live Streaming Platform with Amplify Video
Learn how Orangetheory Fitness transformed their business overnight in response to COVID-19 with AWS Amplify and Amplify Video to bring video workouts to their application.
Deploying a serverless application using AWS CDK
Learn how to transform an application running on Amazon EC2 into a serverless architecture by leveraging services like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
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Learning path
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Build a Full-Stack React App at Lightning Speed
In this 5-part tutorial, you learn how to use AWS Amplify, an open source framework and hosting service with built-in CI/CD, to build and deploy a cloud-based React application in less than an hour.
Management and governance
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Tech talk
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Whitepapers
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Blog posts
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Fireside chat
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Tech talk
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Securing Container Workloads on AWS Fargate
In this tech talk, we explore the security controls and best practices for securing containers running on AWS Fargate including networking setup, IAM, and the AWS and third-party tools.
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Whitepapers
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Security Overview of AWS Lambda
This whitepaper presents a deep dive of the AWS Lambda service through a security lens, which is intended for both new and current Lambda users.
Security Pillar AWS Well-Architected Framework
This paper provides guidance to help you apply best practices in the design, delivery, and maintenance of secure AWS environments.
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Blog posts
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Use the Cloud to Protect the Cloud: A Holistic Approach to Securing AWS at Enterprise Scale
Maintaining security in the cloud is achievable by following a structured framework consisting of five core pillars, Identity & Access Management, Detective Controls, Infrastructure Security, Data Protection, and Incident Response.
Governance in the Cloud and in the Digital Age: Part One
Get a deeper understanding of rule-based governance and how you can optimize operations in cloud with this strategy.
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Fireside chat
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Serverless Security Strategies: Under the Hood
Hear from AWS Senior Principal Engineers Becky Weiss and Marc Brooker as they discuss how serverless security is applied under the hood.
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