AI Agents on Serverlessđâď¸ #101
Pun intended!! But we are in the world of AI Agents running on Serverless
In the previous issue, S3 is object storage, vector DB and now File System. đâď¸ #100 we looked at S3 as a File System.
In this issue, which is #101, letâs take a dig at AI Agents on the Serverless ecosystem.
Moving from basic âbotsâ to sophisticated AI Agents, the challenge isnât just the AI, itâs the orchestration. To run reliable agents at scale, you need an infrastructure that can handle long-running reasoning, manage persistent memory, and execute complex workflows without breaking.
In a typical Serverless architecture, it will look like
AgentCore receives the user intent and decides which âToolâ to use.
The Gateway triggers a Lambda Durable Function.
The Durable Function executes a multi-day workflow (e.g., âAnalyze this log, wait for a Senior Engineer to approve the fix, then deployâ).
Durable Functions report the final state back to the AgentCore Runtime, which informs the user.
By leveraging Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, you are offloading the complex âthinkingâ and memory management to a platform designed for intelligence. By utilizing AWS Lambda Durable Functions, you are ensuring that your agentâs actions are resilient, stateful, and capable of surviving the âreal worldâ of timeouts and API failures.
â Pick of the month
This monthâs Pick is âSQS + Lambdaâ.
Jones Zachariah Noelâs (author) has published how to get started with SQS and understanding types of SQS: Standard and FIFO. If you have cross-account messages, the SQS queue can trigger cross-account Lambda. Also, if you are internested with SQS monitoring and the metrics to look at to understand SQS performance.
đ AWSome content to learn from
Robert Berger debunks how a startupâs eng team cuts 900+ hours of toil with Sedai to manage Lambdaâs CPU/memory/cost optimization and impact on adopting Sedai.
Pranay Prakash explains how Vercel Workflows is a new programming model for durable execution with Fluid Compute and Vercel Queues working BTS for an orchestrator.
Sagar P explains what AWS CloudFront is and CF in action with a detailed setup and distribution creation, and testing it out to be the fore-front of the application running on EC2 with ALB.
Jaya Ganesh K gets into the internals and hidden cost of AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and how he fixed with a human-in-the-loop clearn up workflow with Lambda Durable Functions.
Omid Eidivandi showcases how to design Enterprise Architecture for Agentic Systems On AWS with the transition from traditional to agentic architecture and how that mindshift is happening with AgentCore.
Eric Johnson debunks how 200k MCP servers are exposed and how Serverless is safer with Lambda and AgentCore and how Serverless ensures the security by default.
Lee Gilmore explains Securing Private Video Content with CloudFront Signed URLs and Serverless on AWS with an architecture rundown and CDK app to help you understand CF distributions.
âď¸ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects
Vercel launches Open Agents.
Jaya Ganesh K builds out serverless Kiro control plane.
Gunnar Grosch publishes durable-viz v0.2.0.
đď¸ Podcasts, videos, and live-streams
Joud Awad gets into Lambda Versions and Aliases over $LATEST.
Dan Blanerâs shows how to build a serverless app with Claude Code and Aurora DSQL.
On the Serverless Office Hours, Julian Wood joins Michael Gasch and Eric Johnson for AWS Lambda durable functions: Best Practices, AI patterns, and Futures.
đď¸ Mark your calendars
AWS User Group Women in Tech Ontarioâs virtual meet-up on April 30th, 2026.
AWS Community Days are happening -
ACD TĂźrkiye on May 9th, 2026.
ACD Midwest on June 24th, 2026.
ACD Bengaluru on July 11th, 2026. CFP is currently open until April 30th, 2026.
AWS Community Summit Birmingham on June 4th, 2026.
đ˘ What's new in Serverless
AWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 Files.
Amazon Aurora serverless: Up to 30% better performance, smarter scaling, and still scales to zero.
Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rules.
Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Amazon Bedrock.
đ¨âđť Word from the author
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