AWS News Blog

Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter in front of it, and Amazon S3 became something you can provision from inside the tool you were already using, without opening the AWS Management Console. Different services, same direction.

The counterweight arrived on Thursday. As it gets easier to put things into production, it matters more that you can say what those things are allowed to do, and this week’s most interesting read is about exactly that. Now, let’s get into this week’s AWS news…

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AWS Lambda Web Functions is a new form factor that runs a standard HTTP web application on Lambda without rewriting it into an event handler. You take a port-listening server built with Express, Hono, Fastify, or Next.js, run aws lambda-web deploy , and get back a live HTTPS URL in under a minute.…