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Friday, October 9, 2026

AWS Lambda Now Supports OAuth for Apache Kafka Event Sources

AWS Lambda just added OAuth authentication support for self-managed Apache Kafka event source mappings, letting you authenticate through enterprise identity providers like Amazon Cognito or Okta. This means regulated industries can finally use Lambda's serverless Kafka consumers with their existing OAuth setups across all AWS commercial regions.

source: [aws/whats-new]