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Category: Messaging
Introducing AWS Lambda native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Apache Kafka events
AWS Lambda now provides native support for Apache Avro and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) formatted events with Apache Kafka event source mapping (ESM) when using Provisioned Mode. The support allows you to validate your schema with popular schema registries. This allows you to use and filter the more efficient binary event formats and share data using […]
Networking of Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ event source mapping for AWS Lambda
Event-driven architectures with message brokers need careful attention to security best practices. Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ combined with AWS Lambda enables serverless event processing. However, implementing defense in depth and least privilege principles necessitates a clear understanding of networking requirements. This is particularly important when working with different subnet types and their impact on service […]
Implementing Federation on Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ Private Brokers
Currently, the federation plugin on Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ connects to publicly available upstream brokers only. This post explains how to implement federation for Amazon MQ RabbitMQ Private Brokers using Network Load Balancers (NLB). The steps allow private brokers to communicate with each other to create a distributed system.
Serverless ICYMI 2025 Q1
Welcome to the 28th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. At the end of a quarter, we share the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, videos, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out […]
Optimizing network footprint in serverless applications
This post is authored by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solution Architect, AWS Serverless and Daniel Abib, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Serverless application developers may commonly encounter scenarios where they need to transport large payloads, especially when building modern cloud applications that need rich data. Examples include analytics services with detailed reports, e-commerce platforms with extensive […]
Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda
This post is written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solution Architect, AWS Serverless and Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Principal Engineer, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda is a highly scalable and resilient serverless compute service. With over 1.5 million monthly active customers and tens of trillions of invocations processed, scalability and reliability are two of the most important service […]
Introducing cross-account targets for Amazon EventBridge Event Buses
This post is written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect, Serverless and Alexander Vladimirov, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless Today, Amazon EventBridge is announcing support for cross-account targets for Event Buses. This new capability allows you to send events directly to targets, such as Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Notification Service […]
Serverless ICYMI Q4 2024
Welcome to the 27th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. At the end of a quarter, we share 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 […]
Implementing transactions using JMS2.0 in Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ
This post is written by Paras Jain, Senior Technical Account Manager and Vinodh Kannan Sadayamuthu, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect This post describes the transactional capabilities of the ActiveMQ broker in Amazon MQ by using a producer client application written using the Java Messaging System(JMS) 2.0 API. The JMS 2.0 APIs are easier to use and […]
Introducing new Event Source Mapping (ESM) metrics for AWS Lambda
This post is written by Tarun Rai Madan, Principal Product Manager – Serverless, and Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Principal Software Engineer, Serverless Today, AWS is announcing new opt-in Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS Lambda Event Source Mappings that subscribe to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB event sources. These metrics include PolledEventCount, […]