When building applications that span multiple cloud providers or integrate with external services, developers face a persistent challenge: managing credentials securely. Traditional approaches require storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords, creating security risks and operational overhead. Today, we’re announcing a new capability called AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation that customers…

Today, I’m excited to announce enhanced local testing capabilities for AWS Step Functions through the TestState API, our testing API. These enhancements are available through the API, so you can build automated test suites that validate your workflow definitions locally on your development machines, test error handling patterns, data transformations, and mock service integrations using…

Multi-tenant applications often require strict isolation when processing tenant-specific code or data. Examples include software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms for workflow automation or code execution where customers need to ensure that execution environments used for individual tenants or end users remain completely separate from one another. Traditionally, developers have addressed these requirements by deploying separate Lambda functions…