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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

AWS Lambda Extends Function Timeout to 90 Minutes for Longer Workloads

AWS Lambda now supports 90-minute function timeouts for asynchronous and event source mapping invocations on Lambda Managed Instances—a 6x jump from the previous 15-minute limit. This means you can finally run heavy-duty jobs like media transcoding, AI inference, and financial simulations without architectural gymnastics, available across all AWS Regions where Lambda Managed Instances operates.

source: [aws/whats-new]