AWS Compute Blog
Category: Serverless
Introducing tiered pricing for AWS Lambda
This blog post is written by Heeki Park, Principal Solutions Architect, Serverless. AWS Lambda charges for on-demand function invocations based on two primary parameters: invocation requests and compute duration, measured in GB-seconds. If you configure additional ephemeral storage for your function, Lambda also charges for ephemeral storage duration, measured in GB-seconds. AWS continues to find […]
Using certificate-based authentication for iOS applications with Amazon SNS
This blog post is written by Yashlin Naidoo, Arnav Thakur, Kim Read, Guilherme Silva. Amazon SNS enables you to send notifications to a mobile push endpoint using a platform application endpoint by dispatching the notification on your application’s behalf. Push notifications for iOS apps are sent using Apple Push Notification Service (APNs). To send push […]
Using AWS Lambda to run external transactions on Db2 for IBM i
In this blog post, you learn how to run external transactions securely on Db2 for IBM i databases using a combination of Amazon ECR and AWS Lambda. By using Docker to package the driver, forwarder, and custom queries, you can execute transactions from Lambda, allowing modern architectures to interface directly with Db2 workloads. Get started by cloning the GitHub repository and following the deployment instructions.
Migrating mainframe JCL jobs to serverless using AWS Step Functions
This conversion example shows how Step Functions can help you rewrite complex batch processes written in JCL to serverless workflows. It also shows how such a conversion provides maintenance and monitoring features that make it easier to simplify and scale these batch processes.
Understanding AWS Lambda scaling and throughput
Update: AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests. For more information, see the announcement post. AWS Lambda provides a serverless compute service that can scale from a single request to hundreds of thousands per second. When designing your application, especially for high load, it helps to understand how Lambda handles […]
Creating a serverless Apache Kafka publisher using AWS Lambda
In this post, you learn how to create a serverless integration Lambda function between API Gateway and Apache Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). We show how to deploy such an integration with the CDK.
Simplifying serverless best practices with AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript
This blog post is written by Sara Gerion, Senior Solutions Architect. Development teams must have a shared understanding of the workloads they own and their expected behaviors to deliver business value fast and with confidence. The AWS Well-Architected Framework and its Serverless Lens provide architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective […]
Optimizing Node.js dependencies in AWS Lambda
In this post, you learn how to improve Node.js cold start performance by up to 70% by bundling and minifying your code. You also learned how to provide a different version of AWS SDK for JavaScript and that dependencies and how they are imported affects the performance of Node.js Lambda functions. To achieve the best performance, use AWS SDK V3, bundle and minify your code, and avoid top-level imports.
ICYMI: Serverless Q2 2022
Welcome to the 18th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened […]
Introducing the new AWS Step Functions Workflows Collection
Today, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team introduces the Step Functions Workflows Collection, a fresh experience that makes it easier to discover, deploy, and share Step Functions workflows. Builders create Step Functions workflows to orchestrate multiple services into business-critical applications with minimal code. Customers were looking for opinionated templates that implement best practices for building […]