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Category: AWS Step Functions
Simplifying developer experience with variables and JSONata in AWS Step Functions
This post is written by Uma Ramadoss, Principal Specialist SA, Serverless and Dhiraj Mahapatro, Principal Specialist SA, Amazon Bedrock AWS Step Functions is introducing variables and JSONata data transformations. Variables allow developers to assign data in one state and reference it in any subsequent steps, simplifying state payload management without the need to pass data […]
Designing Serverless Integration Patterns for Large Language Models (LLMs)
This post is written by Josh Hart, Principal Solutions Architect and Thomas Moore, Senior Solutions Architect This post explores best practice integration patterns for using large language models (LLMs) in serverless applications. These approaches optimize performance, resource utilization, and resilience when incorporating generative AI capabilities into your serverless architecture. Overview of serverless, LLMs and example […]
Strengthening data security in AWS Step Functions with a customer-managed AWS KMS key
This post is written by Dhiraj Mahapatro, AWS Principal Specialist SA, Serverless. AWS Step Functions provides enhanced security with a customer-managed AWS KMS key. This allows organizations to maintain complete control over the encryption keys used to protect their data in Step Functions, ensuring that only allowed principals (IAM role, user, or a group) have access […]
Serverless ICYMI Q2 2024
Welcome to the 26th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]
Accelerating workflow development with the TestState API in AWS Step Functions
The TestState API helps developers to iterate faster, resolve issues efficiently, and deliver high-quality applications with greater confidence. By enabling developers to test individual states independently and integrating testing into their preferred development workflows, it simplifies the debugging process and reduces context switches.
Serverless ICYMI Q1 2024
Welcome to the 25th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]
Building a serverless pipeline to deliver reliable messaging
This post is written by Jeff Harman, Senior Prototyping Architect, Vaibhav Shah, Senior Solutions Architect and Erik Olsen, Senior Technical Account Manager. Many industries are required to provide audit trails for decision and transactional systems. AI assisted decision making requires monitoring the full inputs to the decision system in near real time to prevent fraud, […]
Invoking on-premises resources interactively using AWS Step Functions and MQTT
Accessing on-premises resources with workers controlled via Step Functions using MQTT and AWS IoT Core is a secure, reactive, and cost effective way to run on-premises jobs. Consider updating your hybrid workloads from using inefficient polling or schedulers to the reactive approach described in this post.
Serverless ICYMI Q4 2023
Welcome to the 24th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]
Introducing the AWS Integrated Application Test Kit (IATK)
The AWS Integrated Application Test Kit is a software library that provides conveniences to help you write automated tests for your cloud applications. This blog post shows some of the features of the initial Python version of the IATK.