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Category: HAQM API Gateway
Capturing client events using HAQM API Gateway and HAQM EventBridge
This post shows how to send client events to an API and EventBridge to enable new customer experiences. The example covers enabling new experiences by creating a way for software clients to send events with minimal custom code.
Building a serverless multi-player game that scales: Part 3
This post discusses how to perform a load test on a serverless workload. The process was used to validate a scale of Simple Trivia Service, a single- and multi-player game built using a serverless-first architecture on AWS.
Implementing header-based API Gateway versioning with HAQM CloudFront
This post is written by Amir Khairalomoum, Sr. Solutions Architect. In this blog post, I show you how to use Lambda@Edge feature of HAQM CloudFront to implement a header-based API versioning solution for HAQM API Gateway. HAQM API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easier for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, […]
Accepting API keys as a query string in HAQM API Gateway
This post was written by Ronan Prenty, Sr. Solutions Architect and Zac Burns, Cloud Support Engineer & API Gateway SME HAQM API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easier for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the front door to applications and allow […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q3 2021
Welcome to the 15th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed!
Building well-architected serverless applications: Optimizing application costs
This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the example application. COST 1. How […]
Building well-architected serverless applications: Optimizing application performance – part 3
February 12, 2024: HAQM Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to HAQM Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications […]
Building well-architected serverless applications: Optimizing application performance – part 2
This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the example application. PERF 1. Optimizing […]
Configuring CORS on HAQM API Gateway APIs
Configuring cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) settings for a backend server is a typical challenge that developers face when building web applications. CORS is a layer of security enforced by modern browsers and is required when the client domain does not match the server domain. The complexity of CORS often leads developers to abandon it entirely […]
Understanding VPC links in HAQM API Gateway private integrations
This post is written by Jose Eduardo Montilla Lugo, Security Consultant, AWS. A VPC link is a resource in HAQM API Gateway that allows for connecting API routes to private resources inside a VPC. A VPC link acts like any other integration endpoint for an API and is an abstraction layer on top of other […]