Introduction AWS recently released Lambda Function URLs to the general public! With this feature, developers can directly configure an API endpoint for a Lambda function without using API Gateway as a trigger! For those that want to start using the new feature, I put together a quick guide. Tasks covered include…

Overview AWS CloudFront improves loading times for objects in S3 buckets by caching the accessed objects to AWS Edge Locations. I conducted a brief experiment to demonstrate the improvement of load times when serving objects far away with CloudFront. For this experiment, I generated almost one million random data points in…

Introduction I work with a large number of datasets collected from sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. There are many times that I need to repeatedly visualize data, make adjustments, and recollect data. By leveraging AWS Lambda, I can avoid the effort of running my data through Python scripts built on…

Introduction Recently, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was reported to be the largest provider of cloud infrastructure. Many companies and organizations are utilizing the AWS platform for many of their cloud services. AWS offers a wide variety of solutions such as the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 instances are useful because they…

Introduction Recently, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was reported to be the largest provider of cloud infrastructure. Many companies and organizations are utilizing the AWS platform for many of their cloud services. AWS offers a wide variety of solutions such as the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 instances are useful because they…

Introduction Recently, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was reported to be the largest provider of cloud infrastructure. Many companies and organizations are utilizing the AWS platform for many of their cloud services. AWS offers a wide variety of solutions such as the Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 can be used to store…

Introduction Recently, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was reported to be the largest provider of cloud infrastructure. Many companies and organizations are utilizing the AWS platform for many of their cloud services. AWS offers a wide variety of solutions such as DynamoDB. DynamoDB is a database service that is highly useful for…

Introduction Python is a very powerful language used for designing programs of wildly varying complexity. The purpose of this write-up is to walk through setting up and testing an environment that can be used for writing programs as simple as scripts or advanced parallel machine learning programs! Application Setup There are many ways…