AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs Supports JavaScript Resolvers

Starting today, AWS AppSync supports JavaScript resolvers and provides a resolver evaluation engine to test them before publishing them to the cloud. AWS AppSync, launched in 2017, is a service that allows you to build, manage, and host GraphQL APIs in the cloud. AWS AppSync connects your GraphQL schema to different data sources using resolvers. Resolvers are how AWS AppSync translates GraphQL requests and fetches information from the different data sources. Until today, many customers had to write their resolvers using Apache Velocity Template Language (VTL). To write VTL resolvers, many developers needed to learn a new language, and that discouraged them from taking advantage of the capabilities that resolvers offer. And when they did write them, developers faced the…

Now Open–AWS Region in Spain

The AWS Region in Aragón, Spain, is now open. The official name is Europe (Spain), and the API name is eu-south-2. You can start using it today to deploy workloads and store your data in Spain. The AWS Europe (Spain) Region has three Availability Zones (AZ) that you can use to reliably spread your applications across multiple data centers. Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of AWS infrastructure that contains one or more data centers. Availability Zones are separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to reduce the risk of a single event affecting the availability of the Region but near enough for business continuity for applications that require rapid failover and synchronous replication. This gives you…

AWS Week in Review – October 10, 2022

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! I had an amazing start to the week last week as I was speaking at the AWS Community Day NL. This event had 500 attendees and over 70 speakers, and Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, delivered the keynote. AWS Community Days are community-led conferences organized by local communities, with a variety of workshops and sessions. I recommend checking your region for any of these events. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon S3 Object Lambda now supports using your own code to change the results of…

Now Open–AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

The AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates is now open. The official name is Middle East (UAE), and the API name is me-central-1. You can start using it today to deploy workloads and store your data in the United Arab Emirates. The AWS Middle East (UAE) Region is the second Region in the Middle East, joining the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region. The Middle East (UAE) Region has three Availability Zones that you can use to reliably spread your applications across multiple data centers. Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of AWS infrastructure that contains one or more data centers. Availability Zones are in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to reduce the risk of…