# AWS Compute Blog Published articles for AWS Compute Blog. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Validating multi-agent decisions with Step Functions and Bedrock AgentCore DevFeed: [Validating multi-agent decisions with Step Functions and Bedrock AgentCore]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Ben Freiberg Published: 2026-09-14T16:47:23Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore](), [AWS Step Functions](), [Artificial Intelligence](), [Generative AI](), [Automation]() Tags: [ai-agents](), [amazon-bedrock-agentcore](), [audit-trail](), [automation](), [aws-step-functions](), [generative-ai](), [regulatory](), [technical-how-to](), [workflow]() ### AI overview The article presents a pattern for validating multi-agent airline rebooking decisions. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents propose options, while AWS Step Functions applies deterministic validation, supports large-scale parallel processing, enables human review, and maintains an execution history for auditing. ### Source excerpt Orchestrating specialized Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents with AWS Step Functions gives you the reasoning power of generative AI with the guardrails of deterministic validation. Agents propose options, and deterministic code validates them before any action is taken, demonstrated here with an airline rebooking workflow. ## Customize Amazon API Gateway destinations for execution logs DevFeed: [Customize Amazon API Gateway destinations for execution logs]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Giedrius Praspaliauskas Published: 2026-09-09T22:35:42Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Amazon API Gateway](), [Amazon CloudWatch Logs](), [log management](), [Amazon S3](), [SIEM, Security, Observability]() Tags: [amazon-api-gateway](), [amazon-cloudwatch-logs](), [amazon-s3](), [announcements](), [intermediate-200](), [logs](), [observability](), [rest-api]() ### AI overview This tutorial explains how to route Amazon API Gateway REST API execution logs to CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose. It contrasts execution logs with access logs and describes their use for diagnosing authorization, validation, integration, mapping, and error-handling behavior. ### Source excerpt 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 [...] ## Architecting SASE solutions using AWS Local Zones DevFeed: [Architecting SASE solutions using AWS Local Zones]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lakshmi VP Published: 2026-09-09T20:36:09Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [networking](), [Network Services]() Tags: [advanced-300](), [architecture](), [aws](), [aws-local-zones](), [aws-marketplace](), [best-practices](), [edge](), [latency](), [routing](), [sase](), [security](), [zero-trust]() ### AI overview The article explains how AWS Local Zones can support SASE deployments by placing virtual security appliances closer to distributed users to reduce latency while maintaining security controls. ### Source excerpt Organizations with geographically distributed workforces face a trade-off between security and low-latency access. This post explores how to use AWS Local Zones and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions to deploy virtual security appliances closer to end users, covering key design principles, capacity planning, and traffic routing. ## Announcing 90-minute function timeout on AWS Lambda Managed Instances DevFeed: [Announcing 90-minute function timeout on AWS Lambda Managed Instances]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Tarun Rai Madan Published: 2026-09-09T19:08:14Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [data-processing](), [Transcodings](), [Amazon EC2]() Tags: [ai-inference](), [announcements](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [batch](), [data-processing](), [event](), [event-driven](), [foundational-100](), [serverless]() ### AI overview AWS Lambda Managed Instances now support a 90-minute timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping invocations, increasing the previous 15-minute limit by six times. The update targets longer-running data processing, media transcoding, AI inference, and batch workloads. ### Source excerpt AWS Lambda now supports a 90-minute function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping (ESM) invocations on Lambda Managed Instances, a 6x increase from the previous 15-minute limit. Data processing, media transcoding, AI inference, and batch workloads can now run on Lambda without re-architecting. ## Bring your own client certificate for backend mTLS in Amazon API Gateway DevFeed: [Bring your own client certificate for backend mTLS in Amazon API Gateway]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Biswanath Mukherjee Published: 2026-09-08T21:46:39Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Amazon API Gateway](), [AWS Certificate Manager](), [Amazon Elastic Container Service](), [nginx]() Tags: [amazon-api-gateway](), [amazon-elastic-container-service](), [announcements](), [architecture](), [authentication](), [aws-certificate-manager](), [aws-fargate](), [intermediate-200](), [rest-api](), [tls]() ### AI overview This tutorial shows how to configure Amazon API Gateway to present a third-party or AWS Private CA-issued client certificate for outbound mTLS to an Amazon ECS backend. ### Source excerpt 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. ## Scheduling email campaigns at scale with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler DevFeed: [Scheduling email campaigns at scale with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Oluwaseun Ademuwagun Published: 2026-09-01T13:09:17Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Amazon Web Services](), [Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)](), [Software as a service]() Tags: [advanced-300](), [amazon-eventbridge](), [amazon-sqs](), [aws](), [cost](), [customer](), [how-to](), [integration](), [local](), [post](), [saas](), [scale](), [technical-how-to]() ### AI overview This tutorial explains how to schedule personalized email campaigns at scale with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. It uses one schedule per recipient to deliver messages at individually optimal times, discusses batch cron jobs, Amazon SQS delay queues, and third-party campaign tools, and describes scaling schedule creation with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map and delivery through Amazon SES. ### Source excerpt Learn how to use Amazon EventBridge Scheduler to deliver email campaigns at per-recipient optimal send times. This post shows how to create one schedule per recipient with zero idle compute cost, scale schedule creation with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map, and deliver through Amazon SES. ## Amazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernel DevFeed: [Amazon Linux default SSM parameter will now track the latest kernel]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Gokul Govindaraju Published: 2026-08-20T19:49:05Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Linux](), [Amazon EC2](), [Amazon Web Services](), [releases](), [Latency]() Tags: [advanced-300](), [amazon](), [amazon-ec2](), [announcements](), [aws](), [kernel](), [latency](), [launch](), [linux](), [os](), [releases](), [systems](), [update](), [updates]() ### AI overview Amazon Linux's default AWS Systems Manager parameter will now track the latest validated kernel version. For Amazon Linux 2023, it moved from kernel 6.1 to 6.18 on August 17, 2026, after a validation period. New instances launched through the parameter will use the updated kernel, while running instances and version-specific parameter users are unaffected. ### Source excerpt The Amazon Linux kernel-default SSM parameter now updates to point to the latest kernel version as new releases become available. This post explains what this means for your workloads and how to manage the transition. ## Set up your AI coding agent to build with AWS Step Functions DevFeed: [Set up your AI coding agent to build with AWS Step Functions]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: D Surya Sai Published: 2026-08-19T11:41:31Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [AWS Step Functions](), [ai-coding](), [Model Context Protocol](), [Amazon Web Services](), [Serverless]() Tags: [ai-coding](), [announcements](), [aws](), [aws-step-functions](), [intermediate-200](), [mcp](), [serverless]() ### AI overview AWS Step Functions added a console button that provides a prompt for configuring compatible AI coding agents with Step Functions skills and an MCP server. The setup enables natural-language workflow development and AWS state-machine operations. ### Source excerpt 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. ## Introducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 DevFeed: [Introducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Jonathan Tuliani Published: 2026-08-15T14:09:35Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [AWS Lambda](), [Node.js](), [Python](), [Amazon Web Services]() Tags: [announcements](), [availability](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [benchmarking](), [china](), [foundational-100](), [govcloud](), [infrastructure-as-code](), [node-js](), [python](), [release]() ### AI overview AWS Lambda introduces public preview runtimes for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15, allowing developers to test upcoming language versions before general availability and provide feedback while breaking changes remain possible. ### Source excerpt AWS Lambda introduces public preview runtimes, a new way to try upcoming language versions before GA. Start using Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 today, provide feedback, and help shape runtime quality before general availability. ## Implementing dynamic feature flags with AWS AppConfig on AWS Lambda DevFeed: [Implementing dynamic feature flags with AWS AppConfig on AWS Lambda]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Daniel Abib Published: 2026-08-14T16:25:51Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [AWS Lambda](), [Serverless](), [experiments](), [configuration](), [Latency]() Tags: [a-b-testing](), [advanced-300](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [feature](), [feature-flags](), [how-to](), [latency](), [real-time](), [serverless](), [technical-how-to]() ### AI overview A tutorial on implementing dynamic feature flags with AWS AppConfig on AWS Lambda. It explains how feature flags support safe deployments, experiments, gradual rollouts, and changes without redeploying functions, using the AWS AppConfig Lambda extension to cache configuration locally and reduce latency. ### Source excerpt Feature toggles allow you to change application behavior in real time without deploying new code. Learn how to implement dynamic feature flags with AWS AppConfig on AWS Lambda for safe deployments, gradual rollouts, and instant rollback. ## Observability best practices for Lambda durable functions DevFeed: [Observability best practices for Lambda durable functions]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: D Surya Sai Published: 2026-08-14T12:49:49Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [AWS Lambda](), [observability](), [Monitoring](), [log management](), [tracing](), [Instrumentation](), [debugging](), [Amazon API Gateway](), [stripe](), [Serverless]() Tags: [advanced-300](), [amazon-api-gateway](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [debugging](), [instrumentation](), [logging](), [metrics](), [monitoring](), [observability](), [payment](), [payment-processing](), [payments](), [serverless](), [technical-how-to](), [tracing]() ### AI overview This tutorial presents an observability pattern for AWS Lambda durable functions using a Stripe payment-processing workflow. It covers durable-function metrics, custom business metrics, alarms, structured logging, AWS X-Ray tracing, instrumentation across suspension boundaries, and end-to-end debugging of callback timeouts. ### Source excerpt Learn observability best practices for AWS Lambda durable functions, including CloudWatch metrics, custom alarms, structured logging, and X-Ray tracing for debugging callback timeouts end-to-end. ## Collecting CPU and memory metrics for AWS Lambda MicroVMs DevFeed: [Collecting CPU and memory metrics for AWS Lambda MicroVMs]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Eric Heinz Published: 2026-08-14T11:11:55Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [telemetry](), [Processes]() Tags: [advanced-300](), [agent](), [amazon-cloudwatch](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [cpu](), [health](), [how-to](), [json](), [latency](), [memory](), [metrics](), [monitor](), [monitoring](), [observability](), [opentelemetry](), [os](), [process](), [production](), [startup](), [technical-how-to]() ### AI overview A tutorial on collecting CPU and memory metrics from AWS Lambda MicroVMs with the Amazon CloudWatch Agent. It explains configuring Telegraf and OpenTelemetry Collector files to emit metrics with a custom dimension from an environment variable. ### Source excerpt Learn how to collect CPU and memory metrics from AWS Lambda MicroVMs using the CloudWatch Agent. Configure telegraf and OTel to monitor and right-size your workloads. ## Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWS DevFeed: [Designing for failure: Building resilient systems on AWS]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Dhvani Vora Published: 2026-08-13T20:03:28Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [incident](), [Incident response]() Tags: [amazon-ec2](), [aws](), [aws-architecture-blog-resilience](), [aws-management-tools-blog-aws-resilience-hub](), [best-practices](), [cassandra](), [distributed-systems](), [hardware](), [incident](), [intermediate-200](), [kafka](), [observability](), [resilience](), [systems]() ### AI overview An AWS resilience guide examines a correlated EC2 hardware failure that took down three colocated Cassandra nodes. It covers placement groups, alarms, automated recovery, and observability patterns for distributed data systems. ### Source excerpt Learn how to prevent correlated hardware failures in distributed systems on Amazon EC2. This post walks through real incident response patterns, including Partition Placement Groups, composite alarms, automated recovery with Auto Scaling, and observability best practices. ## Burst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2 DevFeed: [Burst to Region: Overflow AWS Outposts workloads to Amazon EC2]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Diya Published: 2026-08-12T17:06:54Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Amazon EC2](), [Amazon Web Services](), [datacenter](), [Latency](), [Availability](), [Amazon CloudWatch](), [AWS Lambda](), [Cloud]() Tags: [advanced-300](), [amazon-cloudwatch](), [amazon-ec2](), [api](), [applications](), [availability](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [aws-outposts](), [cloud](), [compute](), [data-center](), [infrastructure](), [latency](), [technical-how-to]() ### AI overview This tutorial presents a Burst to Region pattern for AWS Outposts workloads. When an Outposts rack reaches its fixed compute capacity, the pattern launches Amazon EC2 instances in the parent AWS Region, shifts traffic gradually, and returns traffic to local instances when capacity recovers. It uses CloudWatch, SNS, Lambda, EC2 Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, and EventBridge, trading increased latency for continued availability during capacity events. ### Source excerpt AWS Outposts brings AWS infrastructure into your data center with low latency and data locality. But an Outposts rack has fixed compute. Learn how to build a Burst to Region pattern that overflows workloads to Amazon EC2 in the parent Region when local capacity is exhausted. ## Low-latency, high-throughput SQS event processing with AWS Lambda provisioned mode DevFeed: [Low-latency, high-throughput SQS event processing with AWS Lambda provisioned mode]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Ben Freiberg Published: 2026-08-10T13:42:03Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)](), [AWS Lambda](), [Latency](), [Low Latency](), [Amazon Web Services](), [Concurrency](), [Kafka](), [Internet of things](), [telemetry]() Tags: [amazon-simple-queue-service-sqs](), [amazon-sqs](), [apache-kafka](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [concurrency](), [event-driven](), [flash](), [fraud](), [kafka](), [latency](), [low-latency](), [payment-processing](), [real-time](), [telemetry]() ### AI overview AWS explains how provisioned mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings with AWS Lambda provides explicit control over event pollers to support low-latency, high-throughput event processing. The article describes default and provisioned scaling, concurrency limits, throughput, and use cases including real-time payments, fraud detection, IoT telemetry, and flash-sale order fulfillment. ### Source excerpt Customers building event-driven applications on AWS rely on Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and AWS Lambda event source mappings (ESMs) to process millions of events every day. The fully managed polling infrastructure of ESMs eliminates the need to write and maintain custom code. You can focus on business logic while Lambda handles scaling, batching, [...] ## Serverless ICYMI Q2 2026 DevFeed: [Serverless ICYMI Q2 2026]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Julian Wood Published: 2026-07-20T16:40:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Serverless](), [Amazon Web Services](), [AWS Lambda](), [Firecracker](), [Amazon S3](), [Filesystems](), [Linux](), [virtualization](), [mount](), [Latency]() Tags: [2026](), [amazon-eventbridge](), [amazon-s3](), [amazon-simple-storage-service-s3](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [aws-step-functions](), [ci-cd](), [firecracker](), [latency](), [linux](), [mount](), [serverless](), [virtualization]() ### AI overview A Q2 2026 recap of AWS serverless launches and resources, focusing on AWS Lambda MicroVMs and Amazon S3 Files integration with Lambda. ### Source excerpt 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 [...] ## Introducing self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for AWS Lambda function code DevFeed: [Introducing self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for AWS Lambda function code]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Doug Perkes Published: 2026-07-17T10:49:14Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [AWS Lambda](), [Amazon S3](), [Deployment](), [Security](), [Replication](), [CI/CD](), [AWS Organizations]() Tags: [amazon-s3](), [amazon-simple-storage-service-s3](), [audit-trail](), [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [aws-organizations](), [ci-cd](), [compliance](), [deployment](), [disaster-recovery](), [encryption](), [replication](), [security](), [uncategorized]() ### AI overview AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for function deployment packages. Lambda reads code directly from the customer-controlled bucket, removing deployment-package copies from the Lambda code storage quota and giving teams control over encryption, access policies, compliance, lifecycle management, audit trails, and cross-Region replication. ### Source excerpt 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 [...] ## New: Enhanced AssetState dimension for AWS Outposts capacity metrics on Amazon CloudWatch DevFeed: [New: Enhanced AssetState dimension for AWS Outposts capacity metrics on Amazon CloudWatch]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Rachel McElwaine Published: 2026-07-15T22:52:23Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [AWS Outposts](), [Amazon CloudWatch](), [Monitoring](), [Hardware](), [observability](), [real-time]() Tags: [amazon-cloudwatch](), [aws](), [aws-outposts](), [hardware](), [infrastructure](), [integration](), [metrics](), [monitoring](), [production](), [real-time](), [remote]() ### AI overview AWS Outposts capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch now support an AssetState dimension with Active, Isolated, and Retiring values, enabling more accurate capacity monitoring and alarms. ### Source excerpt Today, we are releasing an expanded format of our Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for AWS Outposts capacity metrics. The existing CloudWatch metrics, AvailableInstanceType_Count, UsedInstanceType_Count, InstanceTypeCapacityAvailability, and InstanceTypeCapacityUtilization for Outposts, can now be grouped using the new AssetState dimension with values: Active, Isolated, or Retiring. In this post, we describe what's changing and how you can use [...] ## Introducing modularized kernel cryptography in Amazon Linux DevFeed: [Introducing modularized kernel cryptography in Amazon Linux]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Mahak Arora Published: 2026-07-14T19:34:12Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [Cryptography]() Tags: [algorithms](), [amazon](), [compliance](), [cryptographic](), [cryptography](), [kernel](), [linux](), [security](), [update](), [updates](), [validation]() ### AI overview Amazon Linux 2023 introduces a standalone FIPS 140-3 cryptographic kernel module. Keeping cryptographic code separate from the main kernel can let unchanged modules carry forward across kernel updates through a streamlined validation process. ### Source excerpt We are introducing modularized kernel cryptography in Amazon Linux 2023, an approach that separates Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 cryptographic components into an independent kernel module that can be certified once and reused across subsequent kernel versions. In this post, we describe how this modular approach works, what it means for FIPS compliance workflows, [...] ## Eliminating Java cold starts with AWS Lambda Managed Instances DevFeed: [Eliminating Java cold starts with AWS Lambda Managed Instances]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Jay Colodner Published: 2026-07-13T20:23:19Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [AWS Lambda](), [benchmarking](), [Amazon Web Services](), [Amazon EC2](), [Spring Boot 4](), [cpu](), [SDKs]() Tags: [aws](), [aws-lambda](), [benchmark](), [benchmarking](), [benchmarks](), [comparison](), [cpu](), [deployment](), [java](), [jit](), [latency](), [on-call](), [performance](), [spring-boot-4](), [uncategorized]() ### AI overview This article benchmarks four Java deployment modes for AWS Lambda: Standard Lambda, SnapStart, GraalVM Native Image, and Lambda Managed Instances. Using identical Spring Boot applications across CPU-bound, I/O-plus-computation, and I/O-bound workloads, it reports that Managed Instances preserve JVM state and enable JIT optimization, improving median and tail latency while reducing cold-start spikes. ### Source excerpt A single cold start can push your Java Lambda function's response time from milliseconds to seconds, enough to violate your p99 SLA, timeout a downstream service, and page your on-call. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) performs best in long-running processes. Its Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler progressively optimizes code over thousands of invocations. Standard serverless execution environments [...] ## Architecting for IOPS and throughput performance on AWS Outposts racks DevFeed: [Architecting for IOPS and throughput performance on AWS Outposts racks]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Brianna Rosentrater Published: 2026-07-10T17:10:39Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [AWS Compute Blog]() Topics: [AWS Outposts](), [Amazon EC2](), [cloud-infrastructure](), [Latency](), [data-processing]() Tags: [amazon-ec2](), [aws](), [aws-outposts](), [cloud](), [compute](), [infrastructure](), [latency](), [low-latency](), [performance](), [post]() ### AI overview This article explains how to design AWS Outposts rack deployments for target IOPS and throughput. It examines the performance limits of EC2 instances and attached EBS volumes, and provides guidance for sizing instances and storage. ### Source excerpt AWS Outposts extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises locations for workloads that require low latency, local data processing, or data residency. In this post, you learn how to configure instances running on an Outpost to support the required IOPS and throughput for your application. The actual IOPS available to an instance is [...]