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AWS Lambda now exposes Availability Zone metadata through an endpoint in the execution environment, so your function can discover its AZ ID with an HTTP request. Use it to prefer same-AZ endpoints for services like ElastiCache, Amazon RDS, and MemoryDB, reduce cross-AZ latency and data transfer costs, and build AZ-aware resilience patterns.

AWS Lambda now supports a 90-minute function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping (ESM) invocations on Lambda Managed Instances, a 6x increase from the previous 15-minute limit. Data processing, media transcoding, AI inference, and batch workloads can now run on Lambda without re-architecting.

AWS Lambda introduces public preview runtimes, a new way to try upcoming language versions before GA. Start using Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 today, provide feedback, and help shape runtime quality before general availability.

From December 1st to December 5th, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will hold its annual premier learning event: re:Invent. There are over 2000+ learning sessions that focus on specific topics at various skill levels, and the compute team have created 76 unique sessions for you to choose. There are many sessions you can choose from, and we are here to help you choose the sessions that best fit your needs. Even if you cannot join in person, you can catch-up with many of the sessions on-demand and even watch the keynote and innovation sessions live.

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 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 […]

This blog is part 4 of the “Getting started with serverless for developers” series, helping developers start building serverless applications from their IDE. Many “getting started” guides demonstrate how to build serverless applications from within the AWS Management Console. However, most developers spend the majority of their time building from within their local integrated development […]

This blog post is part 3 of Getting started with serverless for developers, helping developers to start building serverless applications from their IDE. In the previous post, I introduce AWS Lambda and show how functions are designed to run business logic for serverless applications. In this blog post, you see how to access that business […]

This blog is part 2 of “Getting started with serverless for developers“, helping developers start building serverless applications from their IDE. In part 1 you learn why developers need serverless technologies and which challenges serverless technologies help to solve. You are introduced to an example serverless application. Deploying this application to your AWS account in […]

Update : You can now find the supporting GitHub repository to this series. Part 2: The business logic Part 3: The front door Part 4: Local developer workflow Part 5: Sandbox developer account Developers around the world are already running serverless applications in production without worrying about servers. This new getting started series is for […]