On September 9, 2026, AWS raised the Lambda function timeout to 90 minutes on Lambda Managed Instances and added Graviton5 instances, up to 25% faster than Graviton4. Teams that were working around the 15-minute cap or torn between serverless and EC2 now have a single bridge.

On 25 August 2026 AWS Lambda introduced managed runtimes in public preview, a first for the platform, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15. This no-SLA testing channel exists to validate migration ahead of the end-of-support dates of current runtimes.

Announced at AWS Summit New York on August 7, 2026, AgentCore Runtime Instances bring persistent, stateful compute to Bedrock agents, removing the cold start penalty that plagued real-time deployments. If your AI agents take more than three seconds to respond, the bottleneck is your infrastructure — and AWS just fixed it.

AWS announced general availability of vector search in DynamoDB on July 30, 2026. If your operational data already lives in DynamoDB, you can drop your dedicated vector database — and the synchronization pipeline that comes with it.