Creating a sophisticated conversational experience using Amazon Lex in Australian English

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCreating a sophisticated conversational experience using Amazon Lex in Australian English Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. To build truly engaging conversational experiences, you need high quality speech recognition and natural language understanding that understands the intent of the customer accurately. We…

How to set up custom domain names for AppSync

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to set up custom domain names for AppSync I previously wrote about five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway. One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names. Your shiny new AppSync API is available at XYZ.appsync-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/graphql, but you really want…

How to configure an LDAPS endpoint for Simple AD

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to configure an LDAPS endpoint for Simple AD In this blog post, we show you how to configure an LDAPS (LDAP over SSL or TLS) encrypted endpoint for Simple AD so that you can extend Simple AD over untrusted networks. Our solution uses Network Load Balancer (NLB) as SSL/TLS termination. The…

Stream CDC into an Amazon S3 data lake in Parquet format with AWS DMS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedStream CDC into an Amazon S3 data lake in Parquet format with AWS DMS Most organizations generate data in real time and ever-increasing volumes. Data is captured from a variety of sources, such as transactional and reporting databases, application logs, customer-facing websites, and external feeds. Companies want to capture, transform, and analyze…

Using Lambda layers to simplify your development process

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUsing Lambda layers to simplify your development process Serverless developers frequently import libraries and dependencies into their AWS Lambda functions. While you can zip these dependencies as part of the build and deployment process, in many cases it’s easier to use layers instead. In this post, I explain how layers work, and…

AWS Architecture Center: Your One-Stop Destination for Guidance & Resources

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Architecture Center: Your One-Stop Destination for Guidance & Resources Discovering relevant architecture-related content has been simplified and made easier with the newly updated and expanded AWS Architecture Center. Now you can browse, search, and even request reference architectures, architecture patterns, best practices, and prescriptive guidance all in one location. The revamped…