AWS Compute Blog
Category: Networking & Content Delivery
Simplifying private API integrations with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions
AWS announces new integration capabilities for Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions, enabling direct communication with private APIs using AWS PrivateLink and Amazon VPC Lattice. This enhancement streamlines secure application interactions across private networks, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud platforms, offering improved security, simplified architecture, and enhanced performance for enterprise-level deployments.
Node.js 22 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Andrea Amorosi, Senior SA Engineer. You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 22 runtime, which is in active LTS status and ready for production use. Node.js 22 includes a number of additions to the language, including require()ing ES modules, as well as changes to the runtime […]
Implementing multi-Region failover for Amazon API Gateway
This post is written by Marcos Ortiz, Principal AWS Solutions Architect and Khubyar Behramsha, Sr. AWS Solutions Architect. In this post, you learn how organizations can evolve from a single-Region architecture API Gateway to a multi-Region one, using a reliable failover mechanism without dependencies on AWS control plane operations. An AWS Well-Architected best practice is […]
Implementing network traffic inspection on AWS Outposts rack
This blog post is written by Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect. Enrico Liguori, Solution Architect, Networking. Sedji Gaouaou, Senior Solution Architect, Hybrid Cloud. Network traffic inspection on AWS Outposts rack is a crucial aspect of making sure of security and compliance within your on-premises environment. With network traffic inspection, you can gain visibility into the […]
Generative AI Infrastructure at AWS
Building and training generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, as well as predicting and providing accurate and insightful outputs requires a significant amount of infrastructure. There’s a lot of data that goes into generating the high-quality synthetic text, images, and other media outputs that large-language models (LLMs), as well as foundational models (FMs), create. To start, […]
Integrating AWS WAF with your Amazon Lightsail instance
This blog post is written by Riaz Panjwani, Solutions Architect, Canada CSC and Dylan Souvage, Solutions Architect, Canada CSC. Security is the top priority at AWS. This post shows how you can level up your application security posture on your Amazon Lightsail instances with an AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) integration. Amazon Lightsail offers […]
Protecting an AWS Lambda function URL with Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge
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.
AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood
This post is written by Adrian Hornsby (Principal System Dev Engineer) and Marcia Villalba (Principal Developer Advocate). AWS Lambda comprises over 80 services working together to provide the serverless compute service that it offers to customers. Under the hood, many of these services are built on top of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, […]
Enabling load-balancing of non-HTTP(s) traffic on AWS Wavelength
This blog post is written by Jack Chen, Telco Solutions Architect, and Robert Belson, Developer Advocate. AWS Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services within 5G networks, providing mobile edge computing infrastructure for developing, deploying, and scaling ultra-low-latency applications. AWS recently introduced support for Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS Wavelength zones. Although ALB addresses […]
Securing Lambda Function URLs using Amazon Cognito, Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF
This post is written by Madhu Singh (Solutions Architect), and Krupanidhi Jay (Solutions Architect). Lambda function URLs is a dedicated HTTPs endpoint for a AWS Lambda function. You can configure a function URL to have two methods of authentication: IAM and NONE. IAM authentication means that you are restricting access to the function URL (and […]