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AWS Lambda introduces tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch logs and additional logging destinations
Effective logging is an important part of an observability strategy when building serverless applications using AWS Lambda. Lambda automatically captures and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This allows you to focus on building application logic rather than setting up logging infrastructure and allows operators to troubleshoot failures and performance issues more easily. On May […]
Integrating aggregators and Quick Service Restaurants with AWS serverless architectures
In this post, you learn how to use AWS serverless technologies, such as Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda, to build an integration between Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) and online ordering and food delivery aggregators. These aggregators have taken off as an option to QSRs to expand their consumer base, enabling them with delivery options to help grow their businesses.
Optimizing cold start performance of AWS Lambda using advanced priming strategies with SnapStart
Introduced at re:Invent 2022, SnapStart is a performance optimization that makes it easier to build highly responsive and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. The largest contributor to startup latency (often referred to as cold-start time) is the time spent initializing a function. This post discusses ‘Priming’, a technique to further optimize startup times for AWS Lambda functions built using Java and Spring Boot.
AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase
Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will standardize billing for the initialization (INIT) phase across all AWS Lambda function configurations. This change specifically affects on-demand invocations of Lambda functions packaged as ZIP files that use managed runtimes, for which the INIT phase duration was previously unbilled. This update standardizes billing of the INIT phase across all runtime types, deployment packages, and invocation modes. In this post, we discuss the Lambda Function Lifecycle and upcoming changes to INIT phase billing. You will learn what happens in the INIT phase and when it occurs, how to monitor your INIT phase duration, and strategies to optimize this phase and minimize costs.
Maintaining spare capacity during host failures on AWS Outposts with dynamic monitoring
In this post, we review best practices for capacity management and fault tolerance with Outposts rack followed by an example of how the Outposts API can be used to build an automated monitoring and alerting system to highlight potential resiliency issues.
Streamlining trace sampling behavior for AWS Lambda functions with AWS X-Ray
This post explores the importance of distributed tracing for operating serverless applications and announces an important update to tracing behavior for AWS Lambda, which streamlines how trace context is handled in PassThrough mode. This blog post will demonstrate how this change gives you better control over how your Lambda functions handle tracing with AWS X-Ray through practical examples. Whether you’re building new applications or operating existing ones, this update helps you achieve more predictable and efficient tracing across your serverless applications built using Lambda.
Powering generative AI/ML solutions with AWS Outposts Servers at Edge locations
This post is written by Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect, Leonardo Queirolo, Senior Cloud Support Engineer, and Reet Kundu, Senior Cloud Support Engineer Powering generative AI/ML solutions with AWS Outposts Servers at Edge locations Many organizations are vigorously pursuing generative AI initiatives in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud today because generative AI drive advances […]
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 […]
Anchoring AWS Outposts servers with AWS Direct Connect
This post is written by Perry Wald, Principal GTM SA, Hybrid Edge, Eric Vasquez Senior SA Hybrid Edge, and Fernando Galves Gen AI Solutions Architect, Outposts AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises. Outposts servers launched in 2022, a 1U or 2U rack-mountable host, […]