--- type: "article" title: "Not another Serverless AI - LMI and EventBridge along with SAM making noise šŸš€ā˜ļø #102" summary: "In the previous issue, AI Agents on ServerlessšŸš€ā˜ļø #101 we looked into how the AI Agents are deployed on Serverless.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe conversation around AI automation has officially shifted. Weā€™ve spent the last two years hyper-focused on the brainsā€”the models, the prompts, and the agentic logic.\nSomething from the recent announcement that catches my attention is -\n\nSAM CLI + BuildKit = True Velocity: We are writing features faster than ever, which means slow, sequential container builds are the ultimate bottleneck. By bringing native BuildKit support into the SAM CLI, AWS enables multi-stage builds to execute independent steps in parallel. Layer caching now tracks file-level changes instead of rebuilding entire chunks from scratch. Your deployment loop drops from minutes to seconds, matching the speed of thought. \n\nPredictable Cost Grid via EventBridge Scheduler: Running high-memory, warm instances full-blast at 3 AM when your engineering team is asleep is a massive waste of cloud budget. Amazon EventBridge Scheduler just added 619 new SDK API actionsā€”including direct support for Lambda Managed Instances. Without writing a single line of custom integration code, you can set a time-based cron schedule to scale your LMI capacity up at 8:30 AM and drop it down to zero at night. That is true, precise control over your capacity provisioning, natively managed by the cloud.\n\nBuild optimization, scalability at ease! Thatā€™s the era of Serverless we want to be in with the AI Agents taking over.\n\n\nā­ Pick of the month\nThis monthā€™s Pick is ā€œEvent-Driven Architectureā€.\nLee Gilmore breaks down Automated Certificate Generation with Event-Driven Serverless Pipelines on AWS and how crucial domain events and SQS queues are, with a complete code walkthrough.\nJones Zachariah Noelā€™s blog on what is event driven architecture and how do you build one helps you understand EDA as a pattern; itā€™s all in plain sight in most serverless architectures.\n\n\nšŸš€ AWSome content to learn from\nAyesha Siddiqua talks about Serverless in 2026: hype or the real deal for startups? The honest answer is both, depending on what you are building, and a takeaway decision framework for choosing the best one.\nRan Isenberg address if AWS Lambda Tenant Isolation Mode enough for SaaS? with the internals of tenant isolation mode and what exactly it solves with isolation in SaaS world.\nWerner Vogels and the Lambda Networking team - Ravi Nagayach, Prashant Singh, Kshitij Gupta blog on the invisible engineering behind Lambdaā€™s network with VPC and cold starts, along with the challenges tackled!\nGanesh M puts down a Mastering Serverless Security: A Guide to AWS IAM and Resource-Based Policies with IAM and the best practices and some of the pitfalls to avoid.\nOscar Cortes Bracho debates on Is AgentCore the New Lambda? As AgentCore enables building agents in a serverless way, with some experiments of using AgentCore with other AWS Services.\nEfi Merdler-Kravitz builds out durable functions in action From Urine to the Cloud: A Journey from Kidney Physiology to Computer Vision with LDF being the backbone for the solution.\nLuciano Mammino is writing middlewares for Rust Lambda functions and shares the middleware pattern and reusable code with tower, and also compares it to the middleware pattern from NodeJS runtime. \nDarryl Ruggles shares on S3 Files: The End of Download-Process-Upload (with Terraform) with the after pattern of file system with S3 without using any complex configurations with NAT Gateways, VPC, and EFS.\n\n\nāš’ļø What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects\nRan Isenberg published AWS Lambda Handler Cookbook (Python) v10.0.\nFloci, an open-source local AWS emulator.\nArnav Verma has published aws cost optimizer for EBS volumes.\n\n\nšŸŽ™ļø Podcasts, videos, and live-streams \nOn The New Stack, Luca Chang shares how AWS Bedrock is shaping Model Context Protocol\nDheeraj Choudhary explains ECS vs EKS vs Lambda: Which AWS Service to Choose?\nJoud Awad breaks down SNS vs SQS vs EventBridge Which One Should You Use.\n\n\nšŸ—“ļø Mark your calendars\nServerless Guru is hosting SLS.Day on May 15th, 2026.\nAWS Community Days are happening -\n\nACD East Canada on June 20th, 2026.\n\nACD Midwest on June 24th, 2026. \n\nACD Bengaluru on July 11th, 2026. CFP is currently open until April 30th, 2026.\n\nACD Poland on September 8th, 2026. CFP is currently open until July 6th, 2026.\n\nACD Adria on October 22nd, 2026. CFP is currently open until June 15th, 2026.\n\nAWS Community Summit Birmingham on June 4th, 2026. \nServerlessDays Milano on October 13th, 2026. CFP is currently open until June 15th, 2026.\nAWS North Community Conf on October 15th, 2026. CFP is currently open until June 30th, 2026.\n\n\nšŸ“¢ What's new in Serverless \nAWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0.\nAmazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins.\nAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights supports querying by log group tags.\nAWS SAM now supports WebSocket APIs for Amazon API Gateway.\nAWS SAM CLI adds BuildKit support for AWS Lambda functions packaged as container images.\nThe AWS MCP Server is now generally available.\nAnnouncing Agent Toolkit for AWS ā€” help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS.\nClaude Platform on AWS is now generally available.\nAmazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances.\nAWS Lambda supports scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances.\nCloudflare introduces Dynamic Workflows: durable execution that follows the tenant.\n\n\nšŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Word from the author\nThanks for the support and letā€™s share more about Serverless!!! \nIā€™m open to feedback, so feel free to DM me on LinkedIn for any queries about AWS or Serverless.\nIf you are looking for any guidance or assistance with learning Serverless, my LinkedIn DMs are open for a chat! \nStay tuned and share with Serverless enthusiasts. Follow The Serverless Terminal on X (formerly Twitter) and Blog.\nThe Serverless Terminal Blog\nUntil next time, happy building on Serverless!\n\n\nThanks for reading The Serverless Terminal! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work." newsletter: "The Serverless Terminal" newsletter_handle: "zachjonesnoel" newsletter_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/zachjonesnoel" author: "Jones Zachariah Noel N (@joneszachariahnoel)" published: "2026-05-15T14:31:10.000Z" canonical_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/zachjonesnoel/a/not-another-serverless-ai-lmi-and-eventbridge-along-with-sam" markdown_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/zachjonesnoel/a/not-another-serverless-ai-lmi-and-eventbridge-along-with-sam.md" chat_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/zachjonesnoel/a/not-another-serverless-ai-lmi-and-eventbridge-along-with-sam/chat" source_url: "https://www.theserverlessterminal.com/p/not-another-serverless-ai" body_source: "imported" likes: 0 replies: 0 body_words: 989 --- # Not another Serverless AI - LMI and EventBridge along with SAM making noise šŸš€ā˜ļø #102 In the previous issue, [AI Agents on ServerlessšŸš€ā˜ļø #101](https://www.theserverlessterminal.com/p/ai-agents-on-serverless-101) we looked into how the AI Agents are deployed on Serverless. [![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3g7w!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16341858-1210-4ce1-912b-3886e7c75902_1200x628.png)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3g7w!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16341858-1210-4ce1-912b-3886e7c75902_1200x628.png) The conversation around AI automation has officially shifted. Weā€™ve spent the last two years hyper-focused on the brainsā€”the models, the prompts, and the agentic logic. Something from the recent announcement that catches my attention is - - **SAM CLI + BuildKit = True Velocity:** We are writing features faster than ever, which means slow, sequential container builds are the ultimate bottleneck. By bringing native BuildKit support into the SAM CLI, AWS enables multi-stage builds to execute independent steps in parallel. Layer caching now tracks file-level changes instead of rebuilding entire chunks from scratch. Your deployment loop drops from minutes to seconds, matching the speed of thought. - **Predictable Cost Grid via EventBridge Scheduler:** Running high-memory, warm instances full-blast at 3 AM when your engineering team is asleep is a massive waste of cloud budget. Amazon EventBridge Scheduler just added 619 new SDK API actionsā€”including direct support for Lambda Managed Instances. Without writing a single line of custom integration code, you can set a time-based cron schedule to scale your LMI capacity up at 8:30 AM and drop it down to zero at night. That is true, precise control over your capacity provisioning, natively managed by the cloud. Build optimization, scalability at ease! Thatā€™s the era of Serverless we want to be in with the AI Agents taking over. *** #### ā­ Pick of the month This monthā€™s Pick is ā€œ**Event-Driven Architecture**ā€. *Lee Gilmore* breaks down [Automated Certificate Generation with Event-Driven Serverless Pipelines on AWS](https://www.studyfromexperts.com/blogs/automated-certificate-generation-with-event-driven-serverless-pipelines-on-aws/) and how crucial domain events and SQS queues are, with a complete code walkthrough. *Jones Zachariah Noelā€™s* blog on [what is event driven architecture and how do you build one](https://blog.theserverlessterminal.com/what-why-when-event-driven-architecture) helps you understand EDA as a pattern; itā€™s all in plain sight in most serverless architectures. *** #### šŸš€ AWSome content to learn from *Ayesha Siddiqua* talks about [Serverless in 2026: hype or the real deal for startups? The honest answer is both, depending on what you are building](https://blogs.frigga.cloud/2026/04/serverless-in-2026-hype-or-real-deal.html), and a takeaway decision framework for choosing the best one. R*an Isenberg* address if [AWS Lambda Tenant Isolation Mode enough for SaaS?](https://ranthebuilder.cloud/blog/is-aws-lambda-tenant-isolation-mode-enough-for-saas/) with the internals of tenant isolation mode and what exactly it solves with isolation in SaaS world. *Werner Vogels* and the Lambda Networking team - *Ravi Nagayach, Prashant Singh, Kshitij Gupta* blog on [the invisible engineering behind Lambdaā€™s network](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/the-invisible-engineering-behind-lambdas-network.html) with VPC and cold starts, along with the challenges tackled! *Ganesh M* puts down a [Mastering Serverless Security: A Guide to AWS IAM and Resource-Based Policies](https://infinity-creator.blogspot.com/2026/05/mastering-serverless-security-guide-to.html) with IAM and the best practices and some of the pitfalls to avoid. *Oscar Cortes Bracho* debates on [Is AgentCore the New Lambda?](https://olcortesb.com/blog/is-agentcore-the-new-lambda/) As AgentCore enables building agents in a serverless way, with some experiments of using AgentCore with other AWS Services. *Efi Merdler-Kravitz* builds out durable functions in action [From Urine to the Cloud: A Journey from Kidney Physiology to Computer Vision](https://medium.com/@fooshm/from-urine-to-the-cloud-a-journey-from-kidney-physiology-to-computer-vision-5bde21d00d71) with LDF being the backbone for the solution. *Luciano Mammino* is [writing middlewares for Rust Lambda functions](https://loige.co/writing-middlewares-for-rust-lambda-functions/) and shares the middleware pattern and reusable code with tower, and also compares it to the middleware pattern from NodeJS runtime. *Darryl Ruggles* shares on [S3 Files: The End of Download-Process-Upload (with Terraform)](https://darryl-ruggles.cloud/s3-files-the-end-of-download-process-upload-with-terraform) with the after pattern of file system with S3 without using any complex configurations with NAT Gateways, VPC, and EFS. *** #### āš’ļø What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects *Ran Isenberg* published [AWS Lambda Handler Cookbook (Python) v10.0](https://github.com/ran-isenberg/aws-lambda-handler-cookbook/). [Floci](https://github.com/floci-io/floci), an open-source local AWS emulator. *Arnav Verma* has published [aws cost optimizer](https://github.com/Arnav2354/aws-cost-optimization) for EBS volumes. *** #### šŸŽ™ļø Podcasts, videos, and live-streams On The New Stack, *Luca Chang* shares [how AWS Bedrock is shaping Model Context Protocol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA-Jj67VuMc) *Dheeraj Choudhary* explains [ECS vs EKS vs Lambda: Which AWS Service to Choose?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bkp9sNC6rI) *Joud Awad* breaks down [SNS vs SQS vs EventBridge Which One Should You Use](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMjo4Xy73b4). *** #### šŸ—“ļø Mark your calendars Serverless Guru is hosting [SLS.Day](https://www.sls.guru/events/webinars/sls-day-2026) on May 15th, 2026. AWS Community Days are happening - - [ACD East Canada](https://awscommunitydayeast.ca/) on June 20th, 2026. - [ACD Midwest](https://www.midwestcommunityday.com/) on June 24th, 2026. - [ACD Bengaluru](https://acd.awsugblr.in/) on July 11th, 2026. [CFP](https://sessionize.com/aws-community-day-bengaluru-2026) is currently open until April 30th, 2026. - [ACD Poland](https://awscommunity.pl/en/) on September 8th, 2026. [CFP](https://sessionize.com/aws-community-day-poland-2026/) is currently open until July 6th, 2026. - [ACD Adria](https://awscommunityadria.com/) on October 22nd, 2026. [CFP](https://sessionize.com/aws-community-day-adria-2026/) is currently open until June 15th, 2026. [AWS Community Summit Birmingham](http://comsum.co.uk) on June 4th, 2026. [ServerlessDays Milano](https://milan.serverlessdays.io/) on October 13th, 2026. [CFP](https://forms.zohopublic.eu/overnet/form/CFPServerlessDays1310/formperma/PxdFEPzD1aumi1bdUp2dJrzqOhd3uxRpGpM_0A-XX-g) is currently open until June 15th, 2026. [AWS North Community Conf](https://www.northcommunityconf.com/) on October 15th, 2026. [CFP](https://sessionize.com/aws-north-community-conference-2026/) is currently open until June 30th, 2026. *** #### šŸ“¢ What's new in Serverless [AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/aws-lambda-adds-ruby/). [Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-cloudfront-websockets-vpc-origins/). [Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights supports querying by log group tags](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-cloudwatch-logs-query-by-tags/). [AWS SAM now supports WebSocket APIs for Amazon API Gateway](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/aws-sam-websocket-apis-api-gateway/). [AWS SAM CLI adds BuildKit support for AWS Lambda functions packaged as container images](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/aws-sam-cli-buildkit-aws-lambda/). [The AWS MCP Server is now generally available](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/aws-mcp-server/). [Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS ā€” help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/agent-toolkit/). [Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/claude-platform-aws/). [Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-eventbridge-sdk-integrations/). [AWS Lambda supports scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/aws-lambda-managed-instances/). [Cloudflare introduces Dynamic Workflows: durable execution that follows the tenant](https://blog.cloudflare.com/dynamic-workflows/). *** #### šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Word from the author Thanks for the support and letā€™s share more about Serverless!!! Iā€™m open to feedback, so feel free to DM me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jones-zachariah-noel-n) for any queries about AWS or Serverless. If you are looking for any guidance or assistance with learning Serverless, my [LinkedIn DMs](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jones-zachariah-noel-n) are open for a chat! Stay tuned and share with Serverless enthusiasts. Follow ***The Serverless Terminal*** on [X (formerly Twitter)](https://twitter.com/theslsterminal) and [Blog](https://blog.theserverlessterminal.com/). [The Serverless Terminal Blog](https://blog.theserverlessterminal.com/) Until next time, happy building on Serverless! Thanks for reading The Serverless Terminal! 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