Category: Announcements

With AWS Outposts racks, you can extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises locations. Providing performant, stable, and resilient network connections to both the parent AWS Region as well as the local network is essential to maintaining uninterrupted service. The release of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics, VifConnectionStatus and VifBgpSessionState, gives you greater visibility into the operational status of the Outpost network connections. In this post, we discuss how to use these metrics to quickly identify network disruptions, using additional data points that can help reduce time to resolution.

Modern applications increasingly rely on Serverless technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda to provide scalability, cost efficiency, and agility. The Serverless Applications Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on how to design, deploy, and architect your Serverless applications to overcome some of these challenges. Powertools for AWS Lambda is a developer toolkit that […]

Today, AWS introduced Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) fair queues, a new feature that mitigates noisy neighbor impact in multi-tenant systems. With fair queues, your applications become more resilient and easier to operate, reducing operational overhead while improving quality of service for your customers. In distributed architectures, message queues have become the backbone of […]

AWS Lambda now provides native support for Apache Avro and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) formatted events with Apache Kafka event source mapping (ESM) when using Provisioned Mode. The support allows you to validate your schema with popular schema registries. This allows you to use and filter the more efficient binary event formats and share data using […]

AWS announced that Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) has achieved Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 Level 1 validation of our cryptographic modules, marking a significant milestone in our commitment to providing secure, compliant operating system options for regulated workloads. FIPS certified modules are particularly important for US and Canadian government workloads, healthcare applications requiring HIPAA […]

Today, Amazon API Gateway announces support for dynamic routing rules for custom domain names in all supported AWS Regions. This new capability enables you to route API requests based on HTTP header values, either independently or in combination with URL paths. In this post, you will learn how to use this new capability to implement routing strategies such as API versioning and gradual rollouts without modifying your API endpoints.

Today, AWS announces the open-source AWS Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a tool that combines the power of AI assistance with serverless expertise to enhance how developers build modern applications. The Serverless MCP Server provides contextual guidance specific to serverless development, helping developers make informed decisions about architecture, implementation, and deployment. This post describes how the Serverless MCP Server works with AI coding assistants to streamline serverless development.

Amazon DCV has evolved as a powerful remote display protocol, enabling secure high-performance remote desktop access and application streaming. This blog talks about how DCV remote display capabilities are now integrated with Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023).

Effective logging is an important part of an observability strategy when building serverless applications using AWS Lambda. Lambda automatically captures and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This allows you to focus on building application logic rather than setting up logging infrastructure and allows operators to troubleshoot failures and performance issues more easily. On May […]

Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will standardize billing for the initialization (INIT) phase across all AWS Lambda function configurations. This change specifically affects on-demand invocations of Lambda functions packaged as ZIP files that use managed runtimes, for which the INIT phase duration was previously unbilled. This update standardizes billing of the INIT phase across all runtime types, deployment packages, and invocation modes. In this post, we discuss the Lambda Function Lifecycle and upcoming changes to INIT phase billing. You will learn what happens in the INIT phase and when it occurs, how to monitor your INIT phase duration, and strategies to optimize this phase and minimize costs.