Building well-architected serverless applications: Approaching application lifecycle management – part 2

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding well-architected serverless applications: Approaching application lifecycle management – part 2 This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See…

Integrate Amazon Kendra and Amazon Lex using a search intent

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntegrate Amazon Kendra and Amazon Lex using a search intent Customer service conversations typically revolve around one or more topics and contain related questions. Answering these questions seamlessly is essential for a good conversational experience. For example, as part of a car rental reservation, you have queries such as, “What’s the charge…

How to choose the right API Gateway auth method

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to choose the right API Gateway auth method Quite a few clients have asked me “Hey Yan, what API Gateway auth method should I use for this REST API?” so I thought I’d share my answer with everyone here. This is the high-level decision tree I go through when deciding if and…

How the AWS Competency Program Helps APN Partners Differentiate Their Business

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow the AWS Competency Program Helps APN Partners Differentiate Their Business AWS Competency Partners are uniquely positioned to help companies achieve key business objectives by leveraging the depth and breadth of Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and services. Validating organizations for their deep expertise on AWS and proven customer success, the AWS…

Introducing the serverless LAMP stack – part 2 relational databases

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntroducing the serverless LAMP stack – part 2 relational databases In this post, you learn how to use an Amazon Aurora MySQL relational database in your serverless applications. I show how to pool and share connections to the database with Amazon RDS Proxy, and how to choose configurations. The code examples in…