In the previous issue, Lambda Web Functions make a debut🚀☁️ #109 talking about Web Functions.
AWS Lambda has been evolving into many different abstracts today, and honestly when Lambda Web Functions got launched a couple of weeks back, I felt it’s time for re:Invent pre-launches or pre:Invent. But then it went silent.
Why do I feel for the Serverless world, it’s just AgentCore making all the noise. There are a ton of updates as part of pre:Invent that is going out - be it with EKS supporting Kubernetes Gateway API in EKS Auto Mode or any other service, but why do I feel it’s too silent for Serverless - Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions all of the Serverless services. Is this a silence before the “actual” AWSome releases?
Ever since Lambda launched Durable Functions and MicroVMs, I see the same approach that Cloudflare, Digital Ocean and Temporal going big on their own versions of these features of Lambda. Is this where Lambda will be the abstraction while other tools become the next kin of Serverless?
I’m convinced that Serverless is more of the abstractions that are getting build on top of the Serverless ecosystem that AWS Lambda laid the foundations. I’m also hyped up to see what re:Invent launches are going to drastically change the Serverless and AI space.
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick is “Amazon Bedrock AgentCore“.
Meenakshisundaram (Meena) Thandavarayan shares about AWS Lambda Web Functions + Bedrock AgentCore with a complete walkthrough of the app and sharing how Web Function is the gateway to the AI Agent.
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
Matthew Enarle reflects on how Lambda Web Functions are game changing things for Hono API addressing how routing comes into play and also scalability comparing them to API Gateway + Lambda / ECS + Fargate.
Hoang Le puts together how Lambda is changing in 2026 and something that you shouldn’t be missing.
David Behroozi’s blog on Shrinking the LLRT (Lambda Low Latency Runtime) Binary Size by removing some unnecessary SDK dependencies and modules which makes it 8ms faster.
Kobi Rubin shares how Lambda Web Functions: public by default, and already in your lambda:* grants how this default explore and wildcard could end up being a Auth problem.
Ran Isenberg explains what is Lambda exactly in 2026 with the 5 flavors explained with MicroVMs, Web Functions, Managed Instances, Durable Functions and how to choose these over the other.
Sidath Munasinghe looks into Lambda Web Functions for Express app without an adapter with the hands-on walkthrough of setting it up and deploying with aws lambda-web.
Vincenzo Racca explains the Transactional Outbox Pattern with Spring Boot 4, DynamoDB, and SQS and how Floci helped to replicate this with a deeper look into the events and comparing with CDC approach.
Alexy Grabov reflects on What is going on with Lambda? Emphasizing on how Lambda has evolved from 2014 to now with keeping Serverless also evolved to make it ready for workloads beyond FaaS.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects
Ran Isenberg is back with aws-lambda-handler-cookbook updates.
Matej Nedić has released a new version of spring-data-dynamodb.
Vidit Shah has a new serverless pattern - apigw-http-api-lambda-bedrock-dynamodb-vector-search-cdk- #3275
🎙️ Podcasts, videos, and live-streams
On AWS Bites, Luciano Mammino and Eoin Shanaghy are back with 1,320 AWS Container Tests. Here’s What Made Them Start Faster!
On Yells at Cloud, The Vulnpocalypse by Danielle Heberling, Chris Farris, Gunnar Grosch and Ken Collins.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
AWS Community Days are happening -
ACD Taiwan on October 31st, 2026.
ACD Jakarta on October 31st, 2026.
ACD Central Asia in Tashkent and Almaty this fall 2026.
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processing.
AWS Transform announces Azure-to-AWS cloud-native code conversion.
Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating replicas.
AWS CloudFormation now simplifies stack update rollback operations.
AWS Lambda supports Seekable OCI (SOCI) lazy loading for Lambda Managed Instances.
Serverless Workers: the fastest way to start, and nothing to rethink as you grow
👨💻 Word from the author
Thanks for the support and the newsletter is back after 2 months, while I was battling the thoughts on AI generated content and how overwhelming it’s becoming to read and curate the actual content that really stands out. I’m trying to put together a system for this, happy to have a chat!
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