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Author: Micah Walter
Micah Walter is a Sr. Solutions Architect supporting enterprise customers in the New York City region and beyond. He advises executives, engineers, and architects at every step along their journey to the cloud, with a deep focus on sustainability and practical design. In his free time, Micah enjoys the outdoors, photography, and chasing his kids around the house.
AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping
AWS Lambda’s new provisioned mode for Amazon SQS event source mapping offers dedicated polling resources that provide 3x faster scaling and 10x higher concurrency, enabling lower latency processing, better handling of traffic spikes, and greater control over event processing resources.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS RTB Fabric, Carbon Footprint Tool for Scope 3, AWS Secret-West Region, and more (October 27, 2025)
This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who […]
Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications
Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.
Announcing AWS Outposts third-party storage integration with Dell and HPE
AWS Outposts is now integrated with Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra MP B10000 systems, enabling customers to seamlessly use their on-premises external storage infrastructure with AWS services while maintaining data residency requirements.
Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE
AWS is announcing integrated LocalStack support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the Lambda development experience, including the console to IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities we launched in July 2025, continuing our commitment to simplify serverless development on AWS.
Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) enables organizations to run VMware Cloud Foundation environments directly within Amazon VPCs, simplifying workload migration while maintaining familiar tools and providing access to the scalability, agility, and elasticity of AWS.
AWS Weekly Roundup: SQS fair queues, CloudWatch generative AI observability, and more (July 28, 2025)
To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Vectors. There’s a lot of new stuff to learn! Meanwhile, it’s been an exciting week for AWS builders focused on reliability and observability. […]
Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda
Developers can now build serverless applications faster through seamless console-to-IDE transition and debugging of functions running in the cloud from local IDE.