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Imagine an AI assistant that doesn’t just respond to prompts – it reasons through goals, acts, and integrates with real-time systems. This is the promise of agentic AI. According to Gartner, by 2028 over 33% of enterprise applications will embed agentic capabilities – up from less than 1% today. While early generative AI efforts focused

Cold starts are an important consideration when building applications on serverless platforms. In AWS Lambda, they refer to the initialization steps that occur when a function is invoked after a period of inactivity or during rapid scale-up. While typically brief and infrequent, cold starts can introduce additional latency, making it essential to understand them, especially

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

This blog post discusses the AWS Lambda as orchestrator anti-pattern and how to redesign serverless solutions using AWS Step Functions with native integrations.

Quorum queues are now available on Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ from version 3.13. Quorum queues are a replicated First-In, First-Out (FIFO) queue type that uses the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain data consistency. Quorum queues on RabbitMQ version 3.13 lack one key feature compared to classic queues: message prioritization. However, RabbitMQ version 4.0 introduced support

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

Building on our previous announcement, AWS Outposts third-party storage integration for data volumes, AWS is expanding its collaboration with third-party storage solutions by introducing support for boot volumes backed by external storage arrays. In this post we show you how to boot Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on Outposts directly from NetApp on-premise

Serverless applications commonly use infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks to define and manage their cloud resources. Teams choose different IaC tools based on their skills, existing tooling, or compliance needs. As applications grow, the need to shift between IaC formats may arise to adopt new features or align with evolving standards. Developers are rapidly adopting AI-powered

This post demonstrates how you can modernize legacy SOAP applications using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda to create bidirectional proxy architectures that enable integration between SOAP and REST systems without disrupting existing business operations. Many organizations today face the challenge of maintaining critical business systems that were built decades ago. These legacy applications power

Many organizations implement intelligent document processing pipelines in order to extract meaningful insights from an increasing volume of unstructured content (such as insurance claims, loan applications and more). Traditionally, these pipelines require significant engineering efforts, as the implementation often involves using several machine learning (ML) models and orchestrating complex workflows. As organizations integrate these pipelines

Welcome to the 29th 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

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025, achieving the highest ranking in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories.

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

As you move your generative AI implementations from prototype to production, you may discover the need to run foundation models (FMs) on-premises or at the edge to address data residency, information security (InfoSec) policy, or low latency requirements. To address users’ data residency, latency, and InfoSec needs, this post provides guidance on deploying generative AI FMs into AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts.

Event-driven architectures with message brokers need careful attention to security best practices. Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ combined with AWS Lambda enables serverless event processing. However, implementing defense in depth and least privilege principles necessitates a clear understanding of networking requirements. This is particularly important when working with different subnet types and their impact on service

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

In this post, learn how the new Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript) Parser utility can help you validate payloads easily and make your Lambda function more resilient. Validating input payloads is an important aspect of building secure and reliable applications. This ensures that data that an application receives can gracefully handle unexpected or malicious inputs

Efficient resource management is crucial for organizations seeking to optimize cloud costs while making sure of seamless access to compute capacity. Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) provide the flexibility to reserve compute capacity within a specific Availability Zone (AZ) for any duration. In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon Bedrock Agents can help organizations gain actionable insights into ODCR usage across their AWS environment.

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.