Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation

By Dustin Ward

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…

Accelerate workflow development with enhanced local testing in AWS Step Functions

By Dustin Ward

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…

Streamlined multi-tenant application development with tenant isolation mode in AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

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…

AWS Control Tower introduces a Controls Dedicated experience

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a Controls Dedicated experience in AWS Control Tower. With this feature, you can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed controls without the need to set up resources you don’t need, which means you get started faster if you already have an established multi-account environment and want to use AWS Control Tower only…

New: AWS Billing Transfer for centrally managing AWS billing and costs across multiple organizations

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Billing Transfer, a new capability to centrally manage and pay bills across multiple organizations by transferring payment responsibility to other billing administrators, such as company affiliates and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners. This feature provides customers operating across multiple organizations with comprehensive visibility of cloud costs across their multi-organization…