AWS Compute Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
ICYMI: Serverless Q1 2020
Welcome to the ninth edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, checkout what happened […]
Building a Raspberry Pi telepresence robot using serverless: Part 2
The deployed web frontend and the robot it controls. In a previous post, I show how to build a telepresence robot using serverless technologies and a Raspberry Pi. The result is a robot that transmits live video using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC. It can be driven remotely via an AWS Lambda function using […]
The AWS Serverless Application Repository adds sharing for AWS Organizations
The AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR) enables builders to package serverless applications and reuse these within their own AWS accounts, or share with a broader audience. Previously, SAR applications could only be shared with specific AWS account IDs or made publicly available to all users. For organizations with large numbers of AWS accounts, this means […]
Building a serverless URL shortener app without AWS Lambda – part 2
This post is the second installment of a three-part series on building a serverless URL shortener without using AWS Lambda. The purpose of the series is to highlight the power of Amazon API Gateway and its ability to integrate directly with backend services like Amazon DynamoDB. The result is a low latency, highly available application […]
Orchestrating a security incident response with AWS Step Functions
In this post I will show how to implement the callback pattern of an AWS Step Functions Standard Workflow. This is used to add a manual approval step into an automated security incident response framework. The framework could be extended to remediate automatically, according to the individual policy actions defined. For example, applying alternative actions, or […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q2 2019
This post is courtesy of Moheeb Zara, Senior Developer Advocate – AWS Serverless Welcome to the sixth edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you […]
Amazon Cognito for Alexa Skills User Management
This post is courtesy of Tom Moore, Solutions Architect – AWS If your Alexa skill is a general information skill, such as a random facts skill or a news feed, you can provide information to any user who has an Alexa enabled device with your skill turned on. However, sometimes you need to know who […]
Deploying a personalized API Gateway serverless developer portal
This post is courtesy of Drew Dresser, Application Architect – AWS Professional Services Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Customers of these APIs often want a website to learn and discover APIs that are available to […]
Amazon API Gateway adds support for AWS WAF
This post courtesy of Heitor Lessa, AWS Specialist Solutions Architect – Serverless Today, I’m excited to tell you about the Amazon API Gateway native integration with AWS WAF. Previously, if you wanted to secure your API in Amazon API Gateway with AWS WAF, you had to deploy a Regional API endpoint and use your own […]
Encrypting messages published to Amazon SNS with AWS KMS
Post by Otavio Ferreira, Software Development Manager, Amazon SNS — Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service for decoupling event-driven microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. To address the requirements of highly critical workloads, Amazon SNS provides message encryption in transit, based on Amazon Trust Services (ATS) certificates, as well as message encryption at rest, using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys.