Snap was born in the cloud — launching its flagship app, Snapchat, in 2011 on a cloud-native, monolithic architecture. As the app grew in popularity, Snap migrated to a microservices architecture on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve scalability, optimize availability, minimize latency, and reduce costs. On AWS, Snap now supports more than 306 million Snapchat users sending over 5.4 billion Snaps daily with 20 percent less latency than its prior architecture. Freed from managing infrastru...| Amazon Web Services, Inc.
In this post, we demonstrate how to use a Raspberry Pi 5 as an Amazon EKS hybrid node to process edge workloads while maintaining cloud connectivity. We show how to set up an EKS cluster that connects cloud and edge infrastructure, secure connectivity using WireGuard VPN, enable container networking with Cilium, and implement a real-world IoT application using an ultrasonic sensor that demonstrates edge-cloud integration.| Amazon Web Services
In this post, we demonstrate how to test network resilience of AWS Fargate workloads on Amazon ECS using AWS Fault Injection Service's new network fault injection capabilities, including network latency, blackhole, and packet loss experiments. Through a sample three-tier application architecture, we show how to conduct controlled chaos engineering experiments to validate application behavior during network disruptions and improve system resilience.| Amazon Web Services
Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will standardize billing for the initialization (INIT) phase across all AWS Lambda function configurations. This change specifically affects on-demand invocations of Lambda functions packaged as ZIP files that use managed runtimes, for which the INIT phase duration was previously unbilled. This update standardizes billing of the INIT phase across all runtime types, deployment packages, and invocation modes. In this post, we discuss the Lambda Function Lifecycle a...| Amazon Web Services
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables rapid deployment and scaling of AI agents with enterprise-grade security. It provides memory management, identity controls, and tool integration—streamlining development while working with any open-source framework and foundation model.| Amazon Web Services
One of the best ways to learn something new is to actually try it. I wanted to learn how to use AWS and some of its services, so I moved my projects to AWS. This was just a very basic setup (EC2, S3, CloudFront). Later I wanted to use additional services like Cognito, RDS, MediaConvert, Simple Queue Service, Simple Email Service, etc. So I started building a new project where I was able to use those. It started "slowly" with costs like $20 per month, grew with database to $100 per month and l...| juffalow.com
Today, AWS announces the open-source AWS Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a tool that combines the power of AI assistance with serverless expertise to enhance how developers build modern applications. The Serverless MCP Server provides contextual guidance specific to serverless development, helping developers make informed decisions about architecture, implementation, and deployment. This post describes how the Serverless MCP Server works with AI coding assistants to streamline...| Amazon Web Services
Wrapped Keys are a secure and flexible key management solution provided by Lit Protocol. They offer a unique approach to handling private keys, combining the security of encryption with the programmability of Lit Actions to offer private key signing to a broader range of blockchain networks.| developer.litprotocol.com
The broadest selection of various cloud databases including relational and NoSQL purpose-built databases, fully managed, high performance, and ready to scale.| Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Click prediction may be a simple binary classification problem, but it requires a robust system architecture to function in production at scale. At AdRoll, we leverage the AWS ecosystem along with a suite of third party tools to build the predictors that power our pricing engine, BidIQ. This is a tour of the production pipelines and monitoring systems that keep BidIQ running.| NextRoll
If you are struggling with the choice of the cloud computing vendor and choosing between AWS and GCP, you may be interested in the following article. I tried to show you the benefits of Amazon Web Services, and when is it smarter to choose AWS over Google's Cloud.| awsmaniac.com
If you have played an MMORPG then you know the feeling of starting out in a new game. Your character is level one. You have a vast open world to explore, and there are tons of game systems and gear and skills to learn about.| nathanpeck.com
This is part three of a series on developing a Socket.io and AWS Fargate powered realtime chat application on AWS. Building a Socket.io chat app and deploying it using AWS Fargate (In part one I just packaged up an open source chat application from socket.| nathanpeck.com
In order to learn about serverless architecture, I experimented with implementing a quick proof of concept crash triaging tool using AWS Lambda Functions. There are many benefits of serverless architecture when you really don’t want to manage underlying infrastructure components and often cost saving advantages which can be made. These concepts lend themselves well to certain components of a continuous fuzzing architecture (such as Google’s Clusterfuzz).| Blog
This is the first installment of HashiCode, a blog post series where I go through the source code of HashiCorp tools to learn more about what happens behind the scenes when you interact with tools as a user. Disclaimer: this episode is referencing code from the Terraform codebase as of commit 43a7548. Becuase Terraform is a constanly evolving open source tool, the code is subject to change. However, the ideas expressed will largely remain the same.| danielmangum.com
