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In this 34th quarterly recap post, discover the most impactful AWS serverless launches, features, and resources from Q3 2026 that you might have missed.

AWS Lambda event source mappings now support queue consumption mode for Apache Kafka. Using Kafka Share Groups, you can scale consumer parallelism independently of partition count, with per-record acknowledgment, visibility timeouts, and automatic retries on self-managed Kafka 4.2 or later clusters.

Durable functions span many Lambda invocations, so per-invocation logs answer the wrong question. The Durable Execution Telemetry Exporter is an SDK plugin that emits one complete record per execution to any of 13 destinations with a one-line change, and a companion MCP server lets an AI agent query that data in plain language.

Run a standard Node.js web server on AWS Lambda with Lambda Web Functions, a new type of Lambda function. Deploy it with one command or AWS CloudFormation and get a public HTTPS endpoint with no adapter layer and no servers to manage. See how one execution environment handles many concurrent requests and how active-CPU billing keeps the cost of waiting low.

EC2 Tag Sharing lets AMI owners share tags with any account that has access to the image, using the ec2:SharedTag/ prefix. Updates propagate automatically with no custom replication workflows. This post walks through how it works, a golden AMI use case, and considerations for ABAC policies and account governance.

Managing Amazon EC2 AMIs at scale means constantly mapping AMI IDs to their AWS Systems Manager parameter paths by hand. A recent enhancement to the DescribeImages API returns the associated SSM parameter directly. This post shows how to use it across the AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and Auto Scaling launch templates.

AWS Lambda now supports scalable network bandwidth for functions with 2,048 MB of memory or more running outside a VPC. Sustained throughput scales from 625 Mbps up to 3,000 Mbps at 10,240 MB, reducing execution times and per-invocation costs for latency-sensitive data processing workloads.

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 […]

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.

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.