AWS Compute Blog
Category: Announcements
Running self-hosted AI agent sandboxes with AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Learn how to run AI agent tool calls in secure, isolated sandboxes using AWS Lambda MicroVMs. This post shows how to architect a self-hosted control plane that launches a fresh, VM-isolated MicroVM for each agent session, keeping credentials, networking, and governance entirely within your own AWS account.
Customize Amazon API Gateway destinations for execution logs
Amazon API Gateway execution logs help you trace request processing step by step through your REST API stages. They capture authorization results, integration latency, mapping template output, and error details that are otherwise invisible at the API surface. When a production request fails in a way the access log cannot explain, the execution log is […]
Announcing 90-minute function timeout on AWS Lambda Managed Instances
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.
Bring your own client certificate for backend mTLS in Amazon API Gateway
Enterprises that use Amazon API Gateway often want to bring their own client certificate for backend mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. With API Gateway, you can now use a third-party or AWS Private CA-issued client certificate for the outbound mTLS handshake. In this post, you build a REST API with an outbound mTLS connection to an Amazon ECS backend.
Amazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernel
The Amazon Linux kernel-default SSM parameter now updates to point to the latest kernel version as new releases become available. This post explains what this means for your workloads and how to manage the transition.
Set up your AI coding agent to build with AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions has added a Copy agent prompt button to the console that configures your AI coding agent with Step Functions skills and an MCP server in one step. Paste the prompt into Claude Code, Kiro CLI, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible agent and start building workflows with natural language.
Introducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15
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.
Amazon SageMaker AI now hosts NVIDIA Evo-2 NIM microservices
This post is co-written with Neel Patel, Abdullahi Olaoye, Kristopher Kersten, Aniket Deshpande from NVIDIA. Today, we’re excited to announce that the NVIDIA Evo-2 NVIDIA NIM microservice are now listed in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. You can use this launch to deploy accelerated and specialized NIM microservices to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your drug discovery […]
Building fault-tolerant applications with AWS Lambda durable functions
Business applications often coordinate multiple steps that need to run reliably or wait for extended periods, such as customer onboarding, payment processing, or orchestrating large language model inference. These critical processes require completion despite temporary disruptions or system failures. Developers currently spend significant time implementing mechanisms to track progress, handle failures, and manage resources when […]
More room to build: serverless services now support payloads up to 1 MB
To support cloud applications that increasingly depend on rich contextual data, AWS is raising the maximum payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB for asynchronous AWS Lambda function invocations, Amazon Amazon SQS, and Amazon EventBridge. Developers can use this enhancement to build and maintain context-rich event-driven systems and reduce the need for complex workarounds such as data chunking or external large object storage.









