How to enable Amazon HTTP API to serve requests originating from specific IP addresses? In this article, I will share how to whitelist IP addresses within HTTP API to entertain requests originating from whitelisted IP addresses and reject the rest of the requests. Unlike REST API, HTTP API does not…

In this article, I will share how to map elastic IP and make sure that, all the outgoing requests from the lambda function have the same IP address/origin. Scenario There is an External API and it only allows or entertains the requests originating from specific IP addresses which are whitelisted as…

How to allow specific IP or range of IP addresses to access our REST API endpoints? In this article, I will share how to whitelist an IP address to allow access to the REST API endpoint and deny/block all the requests originating from different source IPs. This article is purely…

I have been exploring Amazon Pinpoint for a while and came across two-way SMS support where a user can send an SMS to communicate with the AWS service. For example in the banking sector, the two-way SMS feature is leveraged for mobile number verification during app download. With this feature…

The lambda layer allows you to add additional code such as libraries, dependencies for the deployed runtime within lambda functions. While working with python runtime we have used temporary on-demand EC2 instances to create & configure the lambda layer which was a tedious task. …

Recently, AWS has announced, “AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source”. Before we go through, how it works let understand that how SQS messages were handled before, and then we will go through how the partial batch response feature will add value. 1st scenario Assumption: The…

AWS Lambda has wonderful functionality called Lambda layers. The layer is the zip file that enables you to add custom runtime, additional package/library, data or any dependency which does not come inbuilt as a part of the default Lambda function runtime. The good part is that the lambda layers can…

MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) is one of the emerging job roles in recent times. According to the LinkedIn report, in the last four years, the demand for machine learning roles and artificial intelligence roles has spiked by 74% annually. Why there is a surge in demand for MLOps & why we need it? Before the advancement of hardware, data technologies the AI field was…

Expensive Code?? Ya, you read it right. While we use the repeated function call with the same parameters, it becomes computationally expensive as well as it takes same amount of time for the computation as well. In this article I’m going to brief on a way to speed up the…