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Implementing patterns that exit early out of a parallel state in AWS Step Functions

This post is written by Madhav Vishnubhatta, Senior Technical Account Manager, Enterprise Support. This blog post explains how to implement patterns in AWS Step Functions that control the break out of a parallel state as soon as a minimum requirement is met. The parallel state usually completes only when all the parallel flows inside it […]

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Detecting and stopping recursive loops in AWS Lambda functions

This post is written by Pawan Puthran, Principal Serverless Specialist TAM, Aneel Murari, Senior Serverless Specialist Solution Architect, and Shree Shrikhande, Senior AWS Lambda Product Manager. AWS Lambda is announcing a recursion control to detect and stop Lambda functions running in a recursive or infinite loop. At launch, this feature is available for Lambda integrations […]

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Understanding AWS Lambda’s invoke throttling limits

This blog explains three key throttle limits applied on Lambda invokes: the concurrency limit, TPS limit and burst limit. It outlines the relationship between these limits and how each one protects the system and your workload from noisy neighbors. Equipped with this knowledge you can better interpret any 429 throttling exceptions you may receive while scaling your applications on Lambda.

AWS Nitro Enclaves uses the proven isolation of the Nitro Hypervisor to further isolate the CPU and memory of the Nitro Enclaves from users, applications, and libraries on the parent instance.

Validating attestation documents produced by AWS Nitro Enclaves

This blog post is written by Paco Gonzalez Senior EMEA IoT Specialist SA. AWS Nitro Enclaves offers an isolated, hardened, and highly constrained environment to host security-critical applications. Think of AWS Nitro Enclaves as regular Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machines (VMs) but with the added benefit of the environment being highly constrained. […]

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Implementing AWS Lambda error handling patterns

This post is written by Jeff Chen, Principal Cloud Application Architect, and Jeff Li, Senior Cloud Application Architect Event-driven architectures are an architecture style that can help you boost agility and build reliable, scalable applications. Splitting an application into loosely coupled services can help each service scale independently. A distributed, loosely coupled application depends on […]

Serverless ICYMI Q2 2023

Welcome to the 22nd 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 […]

Deploying low-latency hybrid cloud storage on AWS Local Zones using AWS Storage Gateway

This blog post is written by Ruchi Nigam, Senior Cloud Support Engineer and Sumit Menaria, Senior Hybrid SA. AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers. With Local Zones close to large population centers in metro areas, […]

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Retrieving parameters and secrets with Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript)

This post is written by Andrea Amorosi, Senior Solutions Architect and Pascal Vogel, Solutions Architect. When building serverless applications using AWS Lambda, you often need to retrieve parameters, such as database connection details, API secrets, or global configuration values at runtime. You can make these parameters available to your Lambda functions via secure, scalable, and […]

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Implementing AWS Well-Architected best practices for Amazon SQS – Part 3

This blog is written by Chetan Makvana, Senior Solutions Architect and Hardik Vasa, Senior Solutions Architect. This is the third part of a three-part blog post series that demonstrates best practices for Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This blog post covers best practices using the Performance Efficiency Pillar, Cost […]