AWS Compute Blog
Category: Serverless
Monitor Amazon SNS-based applications end-to-end with AWS X-Ray active tracing
This post is written by Daniel Lorch, Senior Consultant and David Mbonu, Senior Solutions Architect. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), a messaging service that provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications, now supports active tracing with AWS X-Ray. With AWS X-Ray active tracing enabled for SNS, you can […]
Debugging SnapStart-enabled Lambda functions made easy with AWS X-Ray
This post is written by Rahul Popat (Senior Solutions Architect) and Aneel Murari (Senior Solutions Architect) Today, AWS X-Ray is announcing support for SnapStart-enabled AWS Lambda functions. Lambda SnapStart is a performance optimization that significantly improves the cold startup times for your functions. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, this feature delivers up to 10 times faster function startup times for […]
Implementing cross-account CI/CD with AWS SAM for container-based Lambda functions
Containerized applications often have several distinct environments and accounts, such as dev, test, and prod. An application has to go through a process of deployment and testing in these environments. One common pattern for deploying containerized applications is to have a central AWS create a single container image, and carry out deployment across other AWS accounts. To achieve automated deployment of the application across different environments, customers use CI/CD pipelines with familiar container tooling. This blog post explores how to use AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) Pipelines to create a CI/CD deployment pipeline and deploy a container-based Lambda function across multiple accounts.
Extending a serverless, event-driven architecture to existing container workloads
The blog explains a way to integrate existing container workload running on AWS Fargate with a new event-driven architecture. You use EventBridge to decouple different services from each other that are built using different compute technologies, languages, and frameworks. Using AWS CDK, you gain the modularity of building services decoupled from each other.
AWS Lambda now supports Java 17
This post was written by Mark Sailes, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless. You can now develop AWS Lambda functions with the Amazon Corretto distribution of Java 17. This version of Corretto comes with long-term support (LTS), which means it will receive updates and bug fixes for an extended period, providing stability and reliability to developers […]
Building private serverless APIs with AWS Lambda and Amazon VPC Lattice
Builders can focus on creating customer value and differentiated features instead of complex networking in much the same way that Lambda allows you to focus on writing code. If you are interested in learning more about VPC Lattice, we recommend the VPC Lattice User Guide.
Implementing error handling for AWS Lambda asynchronous invocations
This blog is written by Poornima Chand, Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts and Giedrius Praspaliauskas, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless. AWS Lambda functions allow both synchronous and asynchronous invocations, which both have different function behaviors and error handling: When you invoke a function synchronously, Lambda returns any unhandled errors in the function code back to the […]
Understanding techniques to reduce AWS Lambda costs in serverless applications
Lambda offers a number of techniques that you can use to minimize infrastructure costs whether you are just getting started with Lambda or have numerous functions already deployed in production. When combined with the lower costs of initial development and ongoing maintenance, serverless can offer a low total cost of ownership.
Python 3.10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
You can build and deploy functions using Python 3.10 using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, AWS SAM, AWS CDK, or your choice of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Optimizing AWS Lambda extensions in C# and Rust
This post demonstrates techniques that can be used for running and profiling different types of Lambda extensions. This post focuses on Lambda extensions written in C# and Rust.