Tag: serverless

AWS Step Functions is emerging as a foundational tool for building scalable and distributed serverless applications through workflows. In 2021, the Step Functions team launched Workflow Studio, a low-code visual tool for creating Step Functions workflows in the AWS Management Console. This made workflow building accessible even to those with limited coding experience. In response to […]

In this blog post, you learn how you can securely share files with authorized external parties and track their access using AWS serverless services. The sample application presented uses Step Functions to allow you to extend and customize the workflows to meet your use case requirements.

This blog post shows how to protect a Lambda Function URL, configured with IAM authentication, using a CloudFront distribution and Lambda@Edge. CloudFront helps protect from DDoS, and the function at the edge adds appropriate headers to the request to authenticate it for Lambda.

Reliable interservice communication is an important consideration in microservice design, especially when faced with dual writes. Combining the transactional outbox pattern with dual writes provides a robust way of improving message reliability.

This post is written by Joaquin Rinaudo, Principal Security Consultant and Gezim Musliaj, DevOps Consultant. IBM MQ is a message-oriented middleware (MOM) product used by many enterprise organizations, including global banks, airlines, and healthcare and insurance companies. Customers often ask us for guidance on how they can integrate their existing on-premises MOM systems with new […]

Lambda response streaming can improve the TTFB for web pages. With the support of AWS Lambda Web Adapter, developers can more easily package web applications that support Lambda response streaming, enhancing the user experience and performance metrics of their web applications.

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now supports configuring automatic deletion of schedules after completion. Now you can configure one-time and recurring schedules with an end date to be automatically deleted upon completion to avoid managing individual schedules. Amazon EventBridge Scheduler allows you to create, run, and manage schedules on scale. Using EventBridge Scheduler, you can schedule millions […]

You can build and deploy functions using Python 3.11 using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, AWS SAM, AWS CDK, or your choice of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You can also use the Python 3.11 container base image if you prefer to build and deploy your functions using container images.

Lambda is deprecating the go1.x runtime in line with Amazon Linux 1 end-of-life, scheduled for December 31, 2023. Customers using Go with Lambda should migrate their functions to the provided.al2 runtime. Benefits include support for AWS Graviton2 processors with better price-performance, and a streamlined invoke path with faster performance.

This blog post shows how you can implement patterns that must exit early out of a parallel state in an AWS Step Functions workflow.