Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals

In November 2023, we announced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an AWS built-in application performance monitoring (APM) solution, to solve the complexity associated with monitoring performance of distributed systems for applications hosted on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EC2. Application Signals automatically correlates telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs, to speed up troubleshooting and reduce […]

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Announcing a visual update to the AWS Management Console (preview)

Today, we are announcing a visual update to the AWS Management Console in preview. We are rolling out this update by using the latest version of Cloudscape, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) design system used to build intuitive, inclusive, and meaningful AWS experiences at scale. In this post, I describe how the visual update makes […]

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Introducing Amazon CloudFront VPC origins: Enhanced security and streamlined operations for your applications

I’m happy to introduce the release of Amazon CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, a new feature that enables content delivery from applications hosted in private subnets within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This makes it easy to secure web applications, allowing you to focus on growing your businesses while improving security and […]

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Amazon CloudFront now accepts your applications’ gRPC calls

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. […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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AWS Lambda turns ten – looking back and looking ahead

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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