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Category: HAQM API Gateway
Evaluating access control methods to secure HAQM API Gateway APIs
This post is written by Bryant Bost, Cloud Application Architect. There is not a one-size-fits-all approach to access control for HAQM API Gateway. Properties of your application such as API type, identity provider, client access patterns, privacy requirements, and others influence the design of your access control solution. Understanding the types of access control available […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q1 2021
All the feature launches, blogs, videos, tech talks and more happenings from the AWS Serverless service teams in Q1 2021.
Using multiple segments in HAQM API Gateway base path mapping
HAQM API Gateway recently enhanced base path mapping for custom domains by introducing multi-level base path mapping. Before multi-level base path mapping, paths could not contain a forward slash (/) in a base path. This restriction meant that base paths could only consist of a single word (for example, sales) or a concatenation of several […]
Handling binary data using HAQM API Gateway HTTP APIs
This post is written by Rudolf Potucek, Startup Solutions Architect. HAQM API Gateway REST APIs have supported binary data since 2016. API Gateway HTTP APIs makes it easier to work with both binary and text media types. It supports a new payload format version and infers encoding based on request and response formats. In this […]
Using AWS X-Ray tracing with HAQM EventBridge
X-Ray is a powerful tool for providing observability in serverless applications. With the launch of X-Ray passive tracing in EventBridge, this allows you to trace requests across distributed applications more easily.
Operating Lambda: Building a solid security foundation – Part 2
In this blog post, I explain how to secure workloads with public endpoints and the different authentication and authorization options available. I also show different approaches to exposing APIs publicly.
Building a serverless multi-player game that scales
This post introduces the Simple Trivia Service, a single- and multi-player game built using a serverless-first architecture on AWS. I cover different solutions that you can use to enable connectivity from your game client to a serverless-first backend for both single- and multi-player games.
Configuring private integrations with HAQM API Gateway HTTP APIs
This post was written by Michael Hume – AWS Solutions Architect Public Sector UKIR. Customers often want to use HAQM API Gateway REST APIs to send requests to private resources. This feature is useful for building secure architectures using HAQM EC2 instances or container-based services on HAQM ECS or HAQM EKS, which reside within a […]
Building PHP Lambda functions with Docker container images
At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced that you can package and deploy AWS Lambda functions as container images. Packaging AWS Lambda functions as container images brings some notable benefits for developers running custom runtimes, such as PHP. This blog post explains those benefits and shows how to use the new container image support for Lambda functions […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q4 2020
Welcome to the 12th 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! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what […]