Setting up AWS Lambda with an Apache Kafka cluster within a VPC

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedSetting up AWS Lambda with an Apache Kafka cluster within a VPC This post was written by Mandakini Saroop, Senior Product Manager, and Peiyu Wu, Software Development Engineer. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed, highly available service that uses Apache Kafka to process real-time streaming data. Apache Kafka…

Introducing the SMS sandbox for Amazon SNS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIntroducing the SMS sandbox for Amazon SNS This post is written by Hardik Vasa, Sr. Cloud Support Eng., and Sarath Kumar Kallayil Sreedharan, Sr. Cloud Support Eng. Amazon SNS customers can now more safely and effectively ramp up their usage of SMS messaging via the SMS sandbox. In this post, I describe the SMS…

Building a Serverless Wallet Service for In-Game Currency

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuilding a Serverless Wallet Service for In-Game Currency In the gaming industry, users are often allowed to open accounts and make monetary transactions; they can exchange real money for in-game currency. Players want to be able to add or withdraw funds quickly, and they also want to know how their balance has changed over…