In the previous issue, AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for code storage 🚀☁️ #107 focused on how Lambda + code storage on S3 would be a good combination.
In this issue, looking into the new EventBridge’s enhanced custom event buses.
EventBridge’s new enhanced custom event buses bring in more support for enterprises where the microservices are shared across the AWS Organization with AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) you can now share the events across accounts. This brings in the capability to have a truly multi-account publisher/subscriber without the bus chaining or having cross-account rule duplications.
The new enhanced custom buses would be bringing better visibility into the payload with fine-grain filtering capabilities without having a Lambda wrapper doing the data parser work.
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick is “Amazon Bedrock AgentCore“.
Rick H.’s post on AWS AgentCore: What Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Actually Takes Off Your Plate - I explains more on the agent harness with AgentCore and how one can architect for it.
Jones Zachariah Noel (author) writes more on bringing traces to your AI agents with OpenTelemetry and Strands SDK the custom instrumentation along with the looking at AI specific attributes from your Strands and AgentCore agents.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Pawan Sawalani gives a verdict on running Serverless GitLab Runners on AWS Lambda MicroVMs: killing our idle CI cluster with some lessons learnt.
Uriel Bitton explains the workaround with Running AI Prompts With API Gateway & SQS To Bypass 30 Second Timeout Limit
Atsushi Suzuki explains a way he built a Disposable npm Sandbox with EKS, ACK, and Lambda MicroVMs along with some takes on the architecture choosen.
Sabarish Sathasivan brings out the reality of using SnapStart for Python Lambdas along with some takes on architecture and cost for SnapStart cache.
Ran Isenberg shares some impressions and tradeoffs on Lambda Managed Instances.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects
Mihnea Spirescu and Matt Meckes have built a ACK service controller for Lambda MicroVMs.
Vivek Raja P S has published microvm-ctl.
Sushmaa Firoj Shaikh published Event-Driven E-Commerce Order Pipeline on AWS pattern
Gunnar Grosch brings in a bunch of RUST, .NET and GO updates on durable viz.
Lars Jacobsson has published stackeye.
Anton Aleksandrov has built out Lambda MicroVM Demo Playground.
Eric Johnson has published microvm-dev-environment.
🎙️ Podcasts, videos, and live-streams
Johannes Koch and Muhammed Salih Güler’s AWS Blocks Explained: Local Mocking, Agent-Friendly Backends.
On the Cloud Report with Allen-Michael (AM) Grobelny, Joseph Alioto and Chris Melissinos on AI to recreate our mom’s chicken recipe
Eric Johnson dives into Building Multiplayer Game Servers with AWS Lambda MicroVMs.
Joud Awad explains DynamoDB Global Tables - Multi-Region.
On Production Unlocked, Jones Zachariah Noel joins with Eric Johnson to dive into a deploying the disaster response agent with AgentCore
On Last Week in AWS, Corey Quinn talks about Lambda Slowly Becomes EC2, One Feature at a Time
🗓️ Mark your calendars
AWS Community Days are happening -
ACD Italy on October 2nd, 2026.
ACD DMV on October 9th, 2026.
ACD Armenia on October 10th, 2026.
ACD South Florida on October 14th, 2026.
ACD Australia on October 16th, 2026.
ACD Mumbai on October 17th, 2026.
ACD Shenzhen on October 17th, 2026.
ACD Spain on October 17th, 2026.
ACD Adria on October 22nd, 2026.
ACD Hong Kong on October 24th, 2026.
ACD Switzerland on October 29th, 2026.
ACD Taiwan on October 31st, 2026.
ACD Jakarta on October 31st, 2026. CFP open until October 10th, 2026.
ACD Central Asia in Tashkent and Almaty this fall 2026.
ServerlessDays Milano on October 13th, 2026.
ServerlessDays Cardiff on October 21st, 2026. CFP is currently open.
AWS North Community Conf on October 15th, 2026.
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses for enterprise scale
Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads.
Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search.
AWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPC.
AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies.
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions.
AWS MCP Server adds a serverless capability for AWS Lambda functions.
AWS Lambda now supports Graviton5-powered EC2 instances on Lambda Managed Instances.
AWS Lambda durable functions integrates with Pydantic AI.
Amazon API Gateway now supports 1 MB execution logs with configurable delivery destinations.
AWS DevOps Agent adds support for bidirectional Slack communication.
👨💻 Word from the author
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