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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.

How potential performance upside with AWS Graviton helps reduce your costs further

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides many mechanisms to optimize the price performance of workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and the selection of the optimal infrastructure to run on can be one of the most impactful levers. When we started building the AWS Graviton processor, our goal was to optimize AWS Graviton […]

Enhancing API security with Amazon API Gateway TLS security policies

In this post, you will learn how the new Amazon API Gateway’s enhanced TLS security policies help you meet standards such as PCI DSS, Open Banking, and FIPS, while strengthening how your APIs handle TLS negotiation. This new capability increases your security posture without adding operational complexity, and provides you with a single, consistent way to standardize TLS configuration across your API Gateway infrastructure.

Breaking down monolith workflows: Modularizing AWS Step Functions workflows

You can use AWS Step Functions to orchestrate complex business problems. However, as workflows grow and evolve, you can find yourself grappling with monolithic state machines that become increasingly difficult to maintain and update. In this post, we show you strategies for decomposing large Step Functions workflows into modular, maintainable components.

Enhance the local testing experience for serverless applications with LocalStack

Today, we’re excited to announce new capabilities that further simplify the local testing experience for Lambda functions and serverless applications through integration with LocalStack, an AWS Partner, in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. In this post, we will show you how you can enhance your local testing experience for serverless applications with LocalStack using AWS Toolkit.

DISA STIG for Amazon Linux 2023 is now available

Today, we announce the availability of a Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), developed through collaboration between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The STIG guidelines are important for U.S Department of Defense (DOD) and Federal customers needing strict security compliance derived from the National Institute […]