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EC2 instance summary info showing 1 instance, CentOS 7 (x86_64) AMI, c5.metal instance type, a security group name, and a 500 GiB volume

Building a Cloud in the Cloud: Running Apache CloudStack on Amazon EC2, Part 1

This blog is written by Mark Rogers, SDE II – Customer Engineering AWS. How do you put a cloud inside another cloud? Some features that make Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) secure and wonderful also make running CloudStack difficult. The biggest obstacle is that AWS and CloudStack both want to manage network resources. Therefore, we must […]

Serverless ICYMI Q4 2022

Welcome to the 20th 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 last […]

DNS-based load balancing

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 […]

Scaling AWS Outposts rack deployments with ACE racks

This blog post is written by Eric Vasquez, Specialist Hybrid Edge Solutions Architect, and Paul Scherer, Senior Network Service Tech. Overview AWS Outposts brings managed, monitored AWS infrastructure, compute, and storage to your on-premises environment. It provides the same AWS APIs, and console experience you would get within the AWS Region to which the Outpost […]

A CloudWatch dashboard showing visualization of Lambda update code events alongside Lambda function durations for two functions. The duration is shown as an average value for the last hour and a time chart.

Visualizing the impact of AWS Lambda code updates

This post is written by Brigit Brown (Solutions Architect), and Helen Ashton (Observability Specialist Solutions Architect). When using AWS Lambda, changes made to code can impact performance, functionality, and cost. It can be challenging to gain insight into how these code changes impact performance. This blog post demonstrates how to capture, record, and visualize Lambda […]

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 […]

Introducing Serverlesspresso Extensions

Today the Serverless DA team is launching Serverlesspresso Extensions, a new program that lets you contribute to Serverlesspresso. The best extensions will be added to the Serverlesspresso application running in production and featured on the AWS Compute Blog. What is Serverlesspresso? Serverlesspresso is a multi-tenant event-driven serverless application for a pop-up coffee bar that allows […]

AWS Local Zones how it works

AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts, choosing the right technology for your edge workload

This blog post is written by Joe Sacco, Senior Technical Account Manager. The AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure includes 30 Launched Regions, 96 Availability Zones (AZs), 410+ Points of Presence with 400+ Edge Locations, and 13 Regional Edge Caches.  With over 200 AWS services, most customer workloads can run in the AWS Regions. However, for some […]