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Why Did AWS Release Yet Another Vector Store?

Looking beyond the announcement to understand where Amazon DynamoDB Vector Search fits in AWS's growing AI storage portfolio.

AWSDynamoDBVectors
5 min
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Skip the Middleman: Connecting Your UI Directly to an AI Agent via WebSocket

Learn how to connect your browser directly to an AI agent over WebSocket using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, skipping the traditional Lambda proxy and enabling real-time token streaming.

AWSServerlessAmazon Bedrock
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Step Functions without ASL? Welcome Lambda Durable Functions

I've regularly said that AWS Step Functions is my favorite service, this all might be changing with the introduction of Lambda Durable Functions. We'll be going on a deep dive into durable functions and how they work.

AWSServerlessLambda
5 min
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Log buffering with Lambda Powertools

Let's understand what log buffering is, how it's configured in your Lambda Functions and see real results in CloudWatch by trying different configuration options.

AWSServerlessLambda
5 min
Using Amazon Cognito with the user-password flow
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Using Amazon Cognito with the user-password flow

In May I released a post on how to secure APIs using machine-to-machine authentication. Exactly one day after that AWS Cognito changed their pricing model and now my proposed solution would generate cost for me. In this post I will go through a different setup using the user-password auth flow. This will still allow us to authenticate from automations and from Postman while keeping us in the free tier.

AWSSecuritySAM
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Creating users in Amazon Cognito programmatically

Short post to walk through the steps to create users in Amazon Cognito for automation

AWSSecurityCognito
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Secure API Gateway with Amazon Cognito using SAM
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Secure API Gateway with Amazon Cognito using SAM

Getting basic authentication for your API is not as hard as it sounds. In this post we'll be going through the steps to secure your APIs with Amazon Cognito

AWSSecurityServerless
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Using YAML anchors and aliases in a SAM template

Learn how you can setup your SAM template to reuse common pieces of config by using anchors and aliases without introducing any problems.

AWSServerlessSAM
5 min
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Drop the layers, bundle up with ESBuild instead

Learn how you can structure your serverless projects to share code between Lambda Functions using ESBuild instead of Lambda Layers.

AWSServerlessLambda
5 min
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Call APIs from Step Functions using SAM

Learn what's needed to trigger the HTTP endpoint task state from a Step Function to be able to eliminate the Lambda Functions you have to call APIs

AWSServerlessStep Functions
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How to update Lambda Functions from Common JS to ECMAScript

Follow these 3 steps to update your Common JS Lambda Functions to ECMAScript Modules (ESM)

AWSServerless
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Speed up new serverless application development with customized SAM templates

Learn how you can use custom templates with SAM to speed up initial application setup.

AWSServerlessSAM
5 min
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How to Run the JavaScript AWS SDK Locally

Learn how to setup locally to run the AWS SDK using SSO and named profiles

AWSSDKIAM
5 min
Portman CLI
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Add Authentication to Portman API tests

Testing secure APIs through automation can be a pain. Thankfully Portman provides an easy way to include authentication in your test automation.

AWSAPIOpenAPI
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Portman CLI
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Get better API testing by using Portman

Automate your API tests by using your OpenAPI definitions.

AWSOpenAPIAPI Testing
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Padlock
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Stop using your AWS Account root user

Really, stop it! You are putting your account at risk.

AWSSecurityIAM
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How to build a Serverless API in AWS without using a single lambda

Learn what is needed to build a Lambdaless API using AWS API Gateway, DynamoDB, OpenAPI and CloudFormation.

AWSServerlessLambda
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