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Automating event validation with Amazon EventBridge Schema Discovery

This post is written by Kurt Tometich, Senior Solutions Architect, and Giedrius Praspaliauskas, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless Event-driven architectures face challenges with event validation due to unique domains, varying event formats, frequencies, and governance levels. Events are constantly evolving, requiring a balanced approach between speed and governance. This blog post describes approaches to consumer and […]

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Simplifying developer experience with variables and JSONata in AWS Step Functions

This post is written by Uma Ramadoss, Principal Specialist SA, Serverless and Dhiraj Mahapatro, Principal Specialist SA, Amazon Bedrock AWS Step Functions is introducing variables and JSONata data transformations. Variables allow developers to assign data in one state and reference it in any subsequent steps, simplifying state payload management without the need to pass data […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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Implementing custom domain names for private endpoints with Amazon API Gateway

This post is written by Heeki Park, Principal Solutions Architect Amazon API Gateway is introducing custom domain name support for private REST API endpoints. Customers choose private REST API endpoints when they want endpoints that are only callable from within their Amazon VPC. Custom domain names are simpler and more intuitive URLs that you can […]

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The serverless attendee’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024 offers an extensive selection of serverless and application integration content. AWS re:Invent Banner For detailed descriptions and schedule, visit the AWS re:Invent Session Catalog. Join AWS serverless experts and community members at the AWS Modern Apps and Open Source Zone in the AWS Expo Village. This serves as a hub for serverless […]

Using zonal shift with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

This post is written by Michael Haken, Senior Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Today, we’re announcing support for zonal shift in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Zonal shift allows you to rapidly recover from application impairments in a single Availability Zone (AZ) impacting your Auto Scaling Group (ASG) resources. In this post, we describe how performing an […]

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Python 3.13 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Leandro Cavalcante Damascena, Senior Solutions Architect Engineer. AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.13 as both a managed runtime and container base image. Python is a popular language for building serverless applications. The Python 3.13 release includes a number of changes to the language, the implementation, and the […]

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Reduce your Microsoft licensing costs by upgrading to 4th generation AMD processors

This post is written by Jeremy Girven, Solutions Architect at AWS and Chase Lindeman, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AMD have collaborated since 2018 to deliver cost effective performance for a broad variety of Microsoft workloads, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Systems […]

Efficiently monitor your On Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) by Grouping on CloudWatch Dimensions

This post is written by Ballu Singh, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, Ankush Goyal, Enterprise Support Lead in AWS Enterprise Support, Hasan Tariq, Principal Solutions Architect with AWS and Ninad Joshi, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. The On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) allows you to reserve compute capacity for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) […]