Category: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

In this 33rd quarterly recap post, discover the most impactful AWS serverless launches, features, and resources from Q2 2026 that you might have missed. Stay current with the latest serverless innovations that can improve your applications. In case you missed our last ICYMI, read about what happened in Q1 2026. AWS Lambda MicroVMs AWS Lambda […]

If you manage Lambda functions at scale, you’ve likely hit the 75 GB code storage limit or explained to your security team why deployment artifacts live in an S3 bucket you don’t control. Today, we’re announcing self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for AWS Lambda deployment packages. Lambda reads your code directly from your bucket, eliminating quota […]

Learn how Amazon S3 Files simplifies Lambda functions by eliminating transfer code and /tmp constraints. See three modernization patterns with code examples for image processing, ETL pipelines, and multi-agent AI workloads. AWS Lambda functions that interact with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) typically follow a familiar pattern: download an object to /tmp, process it […]

Building memory-intensive applications with AWS Lambda just got easier. AWS Lambda Managed Instances gives you up to 32 GB of memory—3x more than standard AWS Lambda—while maintaining the serverless experience you know. Modern applications increasingly require substantial memory resources to process large datasets, perform complex analytics, and deliver real-time insights for use cases such as […]

Stay current with the latest serverless innovations that can transform your applications. In this 31st quarterly recap, discover the most impactful AWS serverless launches, features, and resources from Q4 2025 that you might have missed.

This blog demonstrates how to leverage Amazon S3 presigned URLs to allow your users to securely upload files to S3 without requiring explicit permissions in the AWS Account. This blog post specifically focuses on the security ramifications of using S3 presigned URLs, and explains mitigation steps that serverless developers can take to improve the security of their systems using S3 presigned URLs.

Welcome to the 28th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. At the end of a quarter, we share the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, videos, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out […]

This post is authored by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solution Architect, AWS Serverless and Daniel Abib, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Serverless application developers may commonly encounter scenarios where they need to transport large payloads, especially when building modern cloud applications that need rich data. Examples include analytics services with detailed reports, e-commerce platforms with extensive […]

AWS Lambda is introducing an enhanced local IDE experience to simplify Lambda-based application development. The new features help developers to author, build, debug, test, and deploy Lambda applications more efficiently in their local IDE when using Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Overview The IDE experience is part of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. […]

This post is written by James Ngai, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda, and Aneel Murari, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Lambda is announcing new recursive loop detection APIs that allow you to set recursive loop detection configuration on individual Lambda functions. This allows you to turn off recursive loop detection on functions that intentionally use […]