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Starting today, you can deploy Amazon CloudFront, our global content delivery network (CDN), in front of your gRPC API endpoints. gRPC is a modern, efficient, and language-agnostic framework for building APIs. It uses Protocol Buffers (protobuf) as its interface definition language (IDL), which enable you to define services and message types in a platform-independent manner. …

Amazon CloudFront now accepts your applications’ gRPC calls Read More »

Since its launch, Amazon VPC Lattice has streamlined complex networking tasks. As a result, my perspective on how to build and connect modern, multi-service applications has changed. As my colleague Danilo wrote in his post announcing the general availability of VPC Lattice: “By using VPC Lattice, you can focus on your application logic and improve …

Streamline container application networking with built-in Amazon ECS support in Amazon VPC Lattice Read More »

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions that delivers faster function startup performance, from several seconds to as low as sub-second, typically with minimal or no code changes in Python, C#, F#, and Powershell. In November 28, 2022, we introduced Lambda SnapStart for Java functions to improve …

AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions is now generally available Read More »

Announced as preview in July, AWS App Studio is a generative AI-powered application development service that enables users to create applications using natural language, without the need for professional software development skills. In that post, I covered how AWS App Studio helps you build secure, scalable applications and eliminates operational overhead by fully managing each …

Build and modify apps using natural language with AWS App Studio, now generally available Read More »

I have a very vague memory of a 2013-era meeting with my then-colleague Tim Wagner. The term serverless did not exist, but we chatted about various ways to allow developers to focus on code instead of on infrastructure. At some I recall throwing my arms skyward and indicating that it would be cool to simply …

AWS Lambda turns ten – looking back and looking ahead Read More »

This week, we wrapped up the final 2024 Latin America Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Days of the year in Brazil, with multiple parallel events taking place. In Goiânia, we had Marcelo Palladino, senior developer advocate, and Marcelo Paiva, AWS Community Builder, as keynote speakers. Florianópolis feature Ana Cunha, senior developer advocate, and in Santiago …

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS BuilderCards at re:Invent 2024, AWS Community Day, Amazon Bedrock, vector databases, and more (Nov 18, 2024) Read More »

Today, we’re announcing the availability, in preview, of a new capability in Amazon Data Firehose that captures changes made in databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and replicates the updates to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Apache Iceberg is a high-performance open-source table format for performing big data analytics. Apache …

Replicate changes from databases to Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Data Firehose (in preview) Read More »

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is launching a new capability allowing security teams to centrally manage root access for member accounts in AWS Organizations. You can now easily manage root credentials and perform highly privileged actions. Managing root user credentials at scale For a long time, Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts were provisioned with highly …

Centrally managing root access for customers using AWS Organizations Read More »

Today, I am happy to introduce resource control policies (RCPs) – a new authorization policy managed in AWS Organizations that can be used to set the maximum available permissions on resources within your entire organization. They are a type of preventative control that help you establish a data perimeter in your AWS environment and restrict …

Introducing resource control policies (RCPs), a new type of authorization policy in AWS Organizations Read More »

I have been following the progress of AWS BuilderCards for several years. Players of all skill levels use the cards to learn about AWS in a fun and engaging way, competing (in a friendly fashion) to combine their cards to form architectures, gaining knowledge and scoring points as they play: To date, more than 15,000 …

AWS BuilderCards second edition at re:Invent 2024 Read More »