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Improving throughput of serverless streaming workloads for Kafka
Event-driven applications often need to process data in real-time. When you use AWS Lambda to process records from Apache Kafka topics, you frequently encounter two typical requirements: you need to process very high volumes of records in close to real-time, and you want your consumers to have the ability to scale rapidly to handle traffic spikes. Achieving both necessitates understanding how Lambda consumes Kafka streams, where the potential bottlenecks are, and how to optimize configurations for high throughput and best performance.
Enriching and customizing notifications with Amazon EventBridge Pipes
This blog post authored by Elie Elmalem, Associate Scale Solutions Architect When implementing event-driven architectures, customers frequently need to enrich their incoming events with additional information to make them more valuable for downstream consumers. Traditionally, customers using Amazon EventBridge would accomplish this by writing AWS Lambda functions to augment their events with supplementary data. However, […]
Serverless ICYMI 2025 Q1
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 […]
Simplifying private API integrations with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions
AWS announces new integration capabilities for Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions, enabling direct communication with private APIs using AWS PrivateLink and Amazon VPC Lattice. This enhancement streamlines secure application interactions across private networks, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud platforms, offering improved security, simplified architecture, and enhanced performance for enterprise-level deployments.
Optimizing network footprint in serverless applications
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 […]
Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda
This post is written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solution Architect, AWS Serverless and Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Principal Engineer, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda is a highly scalable and resilient serverless compute service. With over 1.5 million monthly active customers and tens of trillions of invocations processed, scalability and reliability are two of the most important service […]
Introducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Step Functions
This post written by Ben Freiberg, Senior Solutions Architect. AWS Step Functions introduces an enhanced local IDE experience to simplify building state machines. Workflow Studio is now available within Visual Studio Code (VS Code) through the AWS Toolkit extension. With this integration, developers can author and edit state machines in their local IDE using the […]
Introducing JSONL support with Step Functions Distributed Map
This post written by Uma Ramadoss, Principal Specialist SA, Serverless and Vinita Shadangi, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Step Functions is expanding the capabilities of Distributed Map by adding support for JSON Lines (JSONL) format. JSONL, a highly efficient text-based format, stores structured data as individual JSON objects separated by newlines, making it particularly […]
Introducing cross-account targets for Amazon EventBridge Event Buses
This post is written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect, Serverless and Alexander Vladimirov, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless Today, Amazon EventBridge is announcing support for cross-account targets for Event Buses. This new capability allows you to send events directly to targets, such as Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Notification Service […]
Serverless ICYMI Q4 2024
Welcome to the 27th 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, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out […]









