Category: AWS Lambda

When using a document data store as your service’s source of truth, you may need to share the changes of this source with other downstream systems. The data events that are happening within this data store can be converted to business events, which can then be sourced into multiple microservices that implement different business functionalities. […]

Customers often use Amazon ElastiCache for real-time transactional and analytical use cases. It provides high throughout and low latencies, while meeting a variety of business needs. Because it uses in-memory data structures, typical use cases include database and session caching, as well as leaderboards, gaming and financial trading platforms, social media, and sharing economy apps. […]

Many Amazon Neptune connected data applications for knowledge graphs, identity graphs, and fraud graphs use AWS Lambda functions to query Neptune. This post provides general connection management, error handling, and workload balancing guidance for using any of the popular Gremlin drivers and language variants to connect to Neptune from a Lambda function. The connection management […]

Customers running Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) want to shorten the process of accessing database logs and to receive proactive notifications of database alerts. Generally, database administrators have host access to the database servers, which gives them access to the database logs on the host file system, which are used for monitoring and validating […]

July 2024, this post has been reviewed for accuracy. Hundreds of thousands of customers use Amazon DynamoDB for mission-critical workloads. In some situations, you may want to migrate your DynamoDB tables into a different AWS account, for example, in the eventuality of a company being acquired by another company. Another use case is adopting a […]

Representational state transfer (REST) APIs are a common architectural style for distributed systems. They benefit from being stateless and therefore enable efficient scaling as workloads increase. These convenient—yet still powerful—APIs are often paired with database systems to give programmatic access to data managed in a database. One request that customers have expressed is to have […]

Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage blockchain networks using the open-source blockchain framework Hyperledger Fabric. In this post, we explore how to use AWS CodePipeline and related services to automate the deployment of chaincode. Chaincode is a program that typically handles business logic agreed to […]

In this post, I describe a simple way to transfer data from ElastiCache for Redis clusters to other AWS database services using AWS Lambda functions.

In this post, we show you how to integrate Amazon DocumentDB with Amazon ES so you can run full text search queries over your Amazon DocumentDB data. Specifically, we show you how to use an AWS Lambda function to stream events from your Amazon DocumentDB cluster’s change stream to an Amazon ES domain so you can run full text search queries on the data.

This is a guest post by David Ting, VP of Engineering at Nylas. In their own words, Nylas is a pioneer and leading provider of universal communications APIs that allow developers to quickly connect their applications to every email, calendar, or contacts provider in the world. Over 26,000 developers around the globe use the Nylas […]