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Scaling Kubernetes deployments with HAQM CloudWatch metrics

This post is contributed by Kwunhok Chan | Solutions Architect, AWS   In an earlier post, AWS introduced Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Kubernetes Metrics Server support for HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service. These tools make it easy to scale your Kubernetes workloads managed by EKS in response to built-in metrics like CPU and memory. However, one common use case for applications […]

Announcing WebSocket APIs in HAQM API Gateway

This post is courtesy of Diego Magalhaes, AWS Senior Solutions Architect – World Wide Public Sector-Canada & JT Thompson, AWS Principal Software Development Engineer – HAQM API Gateway Starting today, you can build bidirectional communication applications using WebSocket APIs in HAQM API Gateway without having to provision and manage any servers. HTTP-based APIs use a request/response […]

HAQM API Gateway mapping improvements

Yesterday we announced the new Swagger import API. You may have also noticed a new first time user experience in the API Gateway console that automatically creates a sample Pet Store API and guides you though API Gateway features. That is not all we’ve been doing: Over the past few weeks, we’ve made mapping requests and responses easier. […]

Using HAQM API Gateway as a proxy for DynamoDB

This post is written by Andrew Baird, AWS Solutions Architect. HAQM API Gateway has a feature that enables customers to create their own API definitions directly in front of an AWS service API. This tutorial will walk you through an example of doing so with HAQM DynamoDB. You can use the solution described here in […]

Introducing custom authorizers in HAQM API Gateway

Today HAQM API Gateway is launching custom request authorizers. With custom request authorizers, developers can authorize their APIs using bearer token authorization strategies, such as OAuth using an AWS Lambda function. For each incoming request, API Gateway verifies whether a custom authorizer is configured, and if so, API Gateway calls the Lambda function with the […]