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Region expansion

AWS Lambda MicroVMs now available in 5 additional AWS regions

AWS Lambda MicroVMs offers VM-level isolation and near-instant startup for secure, stateful code execution. It enables dedicated environments for users or jobs without managing virtualization infrastructure.

AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in five new regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Stockholm), bringing the total to ten regions. MicroVMs provide VM-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume speeds, and state preservation for executing user or AI-generated code. Developers can assign each user or job its own isolated compute environment without managing virtualization infrastructure. MicroVMs support secure, stateful, and responsive code execution for applications such as AI coding assistants, interactive development environments, and vulnerability scanners. Users can create a MicroVM image from a Dockerfile and launch MicroVMs from that image, with each instance receiving a dedicated HTTPS URL supporting protocols like HTTP/2, gRPC, and WebSockets. MicroVMs can be accessed via the AWS Lambda console, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit, or Agentic development tools using the Agent Toolkit for AWS.

Why it matters

Lambda MicroVMs benefits developers needing isolated, fast execution environments, particularly for AI assistants and interactive development setups.

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