This post is written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Serverless Efficient message processing is crucial when handling large data volumes. By employing batching, distribution, and parallelization techniques, you can optimize the utilization of resources allocated to your AWS Lambda function. This post will demonstrate how to implement parallel data processing within the Lambda function handler, maximizing ..read more

This post is written by James Ngai, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda, and Aneel Murari, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Lambda is announcing new recursive loop detection APIs that allow you to set recursive loop detection configuration on individual Lambda functions. This allows you to turn off recursive loop detection on functions that intentionally use ..read more

This blog post was written by Brianna Rosentrater – Hybrid Edge Specialist SA and Jessica Win – Software Development Engineer This post is Part 2 of the two-part series ‘Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers’, providing you with code samples and considerations for implementing custom logic to automate Amazon Elastic ..read more

Welcome to the 26th 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, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last quarter here. Calendar EDA Day – London 2024 The AWS Serverless DA team hosted the third Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Day in London on May 14th. This event brought together prominent figures in the event-driven architecture community, AWS, and cus ..read more

This post is written by Alan Oberto Jimenez, Senior Cloud Application Architect, and Tobias Drees, Cloud Application Architect. Modern software systems frequently rely on remote calls to other systems across networks. When failures occur, they can cascade across multiple services causing service disruptions. One technique for mitigating this risk is the circuit breaker pattern, which can detect and isolate failures in a distributed system. The circuit breaker pattern can help prevent cascading failures and improve overall system stability. The pattern isolates the failing service and thus prev ..read more

This post is written by Uri Segev, Principal Serverless Specialist SA. When you invoke an AWS Lambda function synchronously, you expect the function to return a response. For example, this is the case when a client invokes a Lambda function through Amazon API Gateway or from AWS Step Functions. As the client is waiting for the response, you should return the response as soon as possible. However, there may be instances where you must perform additional work that does not affect the response and you can do it asynchronously, after you send the response. For example, you may store data in a data ..read more

Welcome to the 25th 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, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last quarter here. 2024 Q1 calendar Adobe Summit At the Adobe Summit, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocacy team showcased a solution developed for the NFL using AWS serverless technologies and Adobe Photoshop APIs. The system automates image processing tasks ..read more

This post is written by André Stoll, Solution Architect. Chaos engineering is a popular practice for building confidence in system resilience. However, many existing tools assume the ability to alter infrastructure configurations, and cannot be easily applied to the serverless application paradigm. Due to the stateless, ephemeral, and distributed nature of serverless architectures, you must evolve the traditional technique when running chaos experiments on these systems. This blog post explains a technique for running chaos engineering experiments on AWS Lambda functions. The approach uses Lam ..read more

This post is written by Jeff Harman, Senior Prototyping Architect, Vaibhav Shah, Senior Solutions Architect and Erik Olsen, Senior Technical Account Manager. Many industries are required to provide audit trails for decision and transactional systems. AI assisted decision making requires monitoring the full inputs to the decision system in near real time to prevent fraud, detect model drift, and discrimination. Modern systems often use a much wider array of inputs for decision making, including images, unstructured text, historical values, and other large data elements. These large data element ..read more

This post is written by Luca Mezzalira, Principal SA, and Matt Diamond, Principal, SA. Designing a workload with AWS Lambda creates questions for developers due to the modularity that can be expressed either at the code or infrastructure level. Using serverless for running code requires additional planning to extract the business logic from the underlying functional components. This deliberate separation of concerns ensures a robust modularity, paving the way for evolutionary architectures. This post focuses on synchronous workloads, but similar considerations are applicable in other workload ..read more