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AWS Lambda Benchmarking

Xebia

In this blog post, we examine the relative costs of different language runtimes on AWS Lambda. Many languages can be used with AWS Lambda today, so we focus on four interesting ones. Rust just came to AWS Lambda in November 2023 , so probably a lot of folks are wondering whether to try it out. The maximum injection size is 500.

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Sending OpenTelemetry Data From AWS Lambda to Honeycomb

Honeycomb

In this post, I describe how to send OpenTelemetry (OTel) data from an AWS Lambda instance to Honeycomb. I will be showing these steps using a Lambda written in Python and created and deployed using AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). Add OTel and Honeycomb environment variables to your template configuration for your Lambda.

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Unlock the Mysteries of AWS Lambda Invocation: Asynchronous vs. Synchronous

Dzone - DevOps

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is an incredibly useful cloud computing platform, allowing businesses to run their code without managing infrastructure. However, the invocation type of Lambda functions can be confusing for newcomers. Here's a deep dive into the mysteries of AWS Lambda invocation.

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AWS Lambda vs. Fargate: The Battle of Cloud Giants

Dzone - DevOps

Two such services that have gained significant popularity are AWS Lambda and Fargate. Overview AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that runs your code in response to events, automatically managing the computing resources for you. It scales automatically and only charges for the compute time you consume.

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Automate AWS Lambda function deployments to AWS CDK

CircleCI

This tutorial covers: Defining your AWS CDK application and the AWS Lambda handler. When you build a cloud-based application, you can choose to deploy the resources using the GUI (Graphical User Interface) or CLI (Command Line Interface) provided by the cloud provider. mkdir aws-cdk-lambda-circle-ci cd aws-cdk-lambda-circle-ci.

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Scheduling Amazon DynamoDB Backups with Lambda, Python, and Boto3

Linux Academy

A simple way to achieve this is to use an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule to trigger an AWS Lambda function daily. In this hands-on AWS lab, you will write a Lambda function in Python using the Boto3 library. Setting this up requires configuring an IAM role, setting a CloudWatch rule, and creating a Lambda function.

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Instrumenting Lambda with Traces: A Complete Example in Python

Honeycomb

We’re big fans of AWS Lambda at Honeycomb. As you may have read , we recently made some major improvements to our storage engine by leveraging Lambda to process more data in less time. For this project, that meant getting instrumentation out of Lambda and into Honeycomb. The lifecycle of a Lambda container is tricky.

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