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AWS Compute Blog 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 pressure and giving you full security control. Previously, the default AWS-managed code storage created three challenges at scale.

AWS Contact Center The Amazon Connect Customer data lake gives contact centers a central, zero-extract, transform, and load (zero-ETL) location to query contact records, agent performance, conversational analytics, and other data types.

Artificial Intelligence Knowledge bases that ground agents and generative AI applications over your enterprise data are hard to build at scale. Teams typically stitch together connectors, parsers, vector stores, knowledge graphs, and retrieval logic, then operationalize all of it for production. Each piece brings its own challenges. You must decide which data sources to connect and how to parse multimodal document types.

Unintended traffic leaks are a real risk when you rely on remote connectivity to access cloud resources, so maintaining VPN routing integrity on connected devices is essential. When a device connects through a VPN, the administrator-defined routes instruct the operating system to direct specific traffic through the encrypted tunnel.

This post is co-written with Eric Jiang from xAI (SpaceXAI). xAI’s Grok 4.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving teams that build agents and AI workflows a model that reasons reliably over long inputs. With this launch, xAI joins Amazon Bedrock as a model provider. Grok 4.3 is a model with configurable reasoning effort. It offers strong tool use and instruction following for building agents, and token efficiency for high-volume inference.

Advancing Water Stewardship at AWS: New Water Withdrawals Data Now Available in the AWS Sustainability Console At Amazon, we know that water is a precious resource. In 2022, AWS announced the commitment to being water positive by 2030. That means we’ll return more water to communities and the environment than we use in our data center operations.

If you are building AI agents, you have likely encountered a growing list of protocol acronyms—MCP, A2A, UTCP, AG-UI, and x402—that can feel overwhelming. The open source community has converged on several complementary protocols. An AI agent is only as useful as the systems it can reach: internal tools and data, the external APIs your workflows depend on, other agents that own specialized tasks, and the humans who review results and act.

Operations teams managing AWS infrastructure must resolve issues quickly while maintaining thorough documentation and following best practices. Traditional workflows create bottlenecks where valuable engineering time is consumed by administrative tasks rather than actual problem-solving, directly impacting system availability and customer experience. Kiro CLI removes this administrative overhead. Kiro CLI is an AI-powered command-line assistant for software development and operations on AWS.

If you’re running Apache Solr for search, now is a great time to migrate to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless offers a modern, managed destination that greatly reduces operational overhead. Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Apache Solr sources from versions 6.x through 9.x. Migration Assistant now includes an AI assistant that you can drive from your preferred AI tools.

Restaurants miss an average of 150 phone calls per location every month, and about 60 percent of those are customers trying to place an order or book a table. Most of these calls come in during dinner service, exactly when the host is seating guests, servers are turning tables, and the phone becomes an afterthought. Pulling someone off the floor to answer doesn’t fix the problem. It only makes two experiences worse.