Building well-architected serverless applications: Regulating inbound request rates

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This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. By Julian Wood.

API Gateway throttling

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-well-architected-serverless-applications-regulating-inbound-request-rates-part-1/

The article pays attention to:

  • Throttle inbound request rates using steady-rate and burst rate requests
  • Identify steady-rate and burst rate requests that your workload can sustain at any point in time before performance degraded

Regulating inbound requests helps you adapt different scaling mechanisms based on customer demand. You can achieve better throughput for your workloads and make them more reliable by controlling requests to a rate that your workload can support. Nice one!

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