Jimmy Dahlqvist - Tech blog by AWS Serverless Hero, Jimmy Dahlqvist. Writing about AWS, cloud, architecture, development, serverless, and everything there is to know about cloud and AWS

AWS StepFunctions HTTP Endpoint demystified

2024-02-14

serverless, stepfunctions, aws

Calling an API from AWS StepFunctions has for a long time required us to write a Lambda function to handle that. With the release of HTTP EndPoint there is no need for that anymore. In this post I'll go over the functionality and show how to use it.

Serverless redirect with CloudFront Functions

2024-01-31

serverless, cloudfront, functions

How do we efficiently redirect users from one site to an other? In this post we'll create a solution using serverless technologies to handle this redirect in an efficient way. We'll use AWS, CloudFront, and the new Function KeyValueStore.

Amazon Graviton Three Ways

2024-01-16

serverless, graviton, cost savings

The Frugal Architect. Many workloads can utilize the effective Graviton (ARM) based CPU, Switching to Graviton is often an easy way to save on cost. Graviton delivers the best cost vs performance. This blog post will show the migration process for three different workloads.

Run a java service serverless with ECS and Fargate

2024-01-05

serverless, java, ecs

How to run a Java based service on Amazon ECS using Fargate and Fargate Spot. Cover the foundation and the infrastructure and steps needed to run this workload.

Serverless and event-driven translation bot

2023-12-05

serverless, ai, event-driven

Blog post how I created a serverless and event-driven translation service using AI services from AWS, like Amazon Translate and Amazon Polly. Step by step guide how to create this solution and integrate it with Slack for translations using a slash command.

Protecting a Static Website with JWT and Lambda@Edge

2023-10-04

serverless, security

Post about how to use Amazon Cognito together with Lambda@Edge to add protection and authorization to static content hosted with Amazon S3 and CloudFront.

Event-Routers and Brokers in AWS. Navigating the Event-Driven Landscape

2023-08-28

serverless, eda

Choosing the needed event-broker, based on your requirements, is important. This post try and share some light on the use of SQS, SNS, EventBridge in an event-driven architecture.

Building a Multi-region Serverless IoT system

2023-08-16

serverless, iot

Building a multi-region serverless IoT system can be a huge challenge. IoT resources, Things, and Certificates must be replicated across regions to allow IoT devices seamless multi-region connectivity

Building a serverless file manager

2023-08-01

serverless, eda

Building a serverless and event-driven file manager, featured in my Event-driven design thinking blog. Will be using AWS services like S3, StepFunctions, EventBridge.

Serverless and event-driven design thinking

2023-07-13

serverless, eda

How do I create and design a event-driven system? What steps do I take and how do I think. In this post I will explain my event-driven design thinking.

Running VS Code server on AWS

2023-06-29

AWS DX

How I setup to run VS Code server on AWS to be able to access code from anywhere, including vscode.dev

Serverless voice with Amazon Polly

2023-03-15

serverless AWS

How I created voice for my blog posts in a serverless way using Amazon Polly.

Serverless Patterns

2023-01-27

serverless AWS

Architecture patterns I often use, how to implement them using serverless services from AWS

AWS re:Invent session guide 2022

2022-10-29

reInvent AWS

Session guide to re:Invent sessions in 2022, what to watch and what not to miss

AWS IAM Anywhere

2022-07-22

IAM Security

How to setup and use AWS IAM Anywhere, using IAM Roles in on-premises workload authenticating using x.509 certificates.

AppConfig in StepFunctions

2022-06-30

Serverless

How to use AWS AppConfig inside AWS StepFunctions to control the flow of the execution, making it possible to change runtime.

Lambda Function URL

2022-05-15

Serverless

How to get started with AWS Lambda Function URL and the things to watch out for.

Secure your API Gateway APIs with Lambda Authorizer

2022-02-28

API Gateway

How to secure your Amazon API Gateway REST based api using a custom AWS Lambda authorizer.

Secure your API Gateway APIs mutual TLS

2022-01-12

API Gateway

How to secure your Amazon API Gateway REST based api using certificates and mutual TLS (MTLS).

Serverless projects over the years

2021-09-12

Serverless

HThe different serverless project I have built over the years. Ranging from an early SQS poller to self hosted GitLab runners.

Migrating from Lambda@Edge to CloudFront Functions

2021-07-19

Serverless

How to migrate your Lambda@Edge functions to CloudFront Functions and the different benefits of doing that.

Secure your API Gateway APIs with Auth0

2021-07-04

API Gateway

How to secure your Amazon API Gateway REST based api using Auth0 and API Gateway JWT Authorizer.

CloudFront deployments with Lambda@Edge

2021-03-10

Serverless

How to do blue/green deployments to Amazon CloudFront using Lambda@Edge

A tale of an CloudFormation import

2021-02-13

CloudFormation

Infrastructure as Code is one of the most important practices when it come to automation a...

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