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Enhancing multi-account activity monitoring with event-driven architectures

Enterprise cloud environments are growing increasingly complex as they scale, with organizations managing hundreds to thousands of Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts across multiple business units and AWS Regions. Organizations need efficient ways to collect, transport, and analyze activity data for threat detection and compliance monitoring. In this post, you will learn to use AWS CloudTrail and Amazon EventBridge for real-time cloud activity monitoring and automated response.

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Serverless ICYMI 2025 Q1

Welcome to the 28th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. At the end of a quarter, we share the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, videos, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out […]

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Introducing Provisioned Mode for Kafka Event Source Mappings with AWS Lambda

This post is written by Tarun Rai Madan, Principal Product Manager, Serverless Compute and Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Principal Software Engineer, Serverless Compute AWS is announcing the general availability of Provisioned Mode for AWS Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs) that subscribe to Apache Kafka event sources including Amazon MSK and self-managed Kafka. Provisioned Mode allows you […]

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Introducing new Event Source Mapping (ESM) metrics for AWS Lambda

This post is written by Tarun Rai Madan, Principal Product Manager –  Serverless, and Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Principal Software Engineer, Serverless Today, AWS is announcing new opt-in Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS Lambda Event Source Mappings that subscribe to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB event sources. These metrics include PolledEventCount, […]

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Node.js 22 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Andrea Amorosi, Senior SA Engineer. You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 22 runtime, which is in active LTS status and ready for production use. Node.js 22 includes a number of additions to the language, including require()ing ES modules, as well as changes to the runtime […]

Efficiently monitor your On Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) by Grouping on CloudWatch Dimensions

This post is written by Ballu Singh, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, Ankush Goyal, Enterprise Support Lead in AWS Enterprise Support, Hasan Tariq, Principal Solutions Architect with AWS and Ninad Joshi, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. The On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) allows you to reserve compute capacity for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) […]

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Introducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Lambda developers

AWS Lambda is introducing an enhanced local IDE experience to simplify Lambda-based application development. The new features help developers to author, build, debug, test, and deploy Lambda applications more efficiently in their local IDE when using Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Overview The IDE experience is part of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. […]

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Simplifying Lambda function development using CloudWatch Logs Live Tail and Metrics Insights

This post is written by Shridhar Pandey, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda Today, AWS is announcing two new features which make it easier for developers and operators to build and operate serverless applications using AWS Lambda. First, the Lambda console now natively supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail which provides you real-time visibility into Lambda […]

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Monitoring best practices for event delivery with Amazon EventBridge

This post is written by Maximilian Schellhorn, Senior Solutions Architect and Michael Gasch, Senior Product Manager, EventBridge Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event router that allows you to decouple your applications, using events to communicate important changes between event producers and consumers (targets). With EventBridge, producers publish events through an event bus, where you can […]

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AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs

This post is written by James Ngai, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda, and Aneel Murari, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Lambda is announcing new recursive loop detection APIs that allow you to set recursive loop detection configuration on individual Lambda functions. This allows you to turn off recursive loop detection on functions that intentionally use […]