Microservices and Serverless Roundup: Key Developments in June–July 2025
AWS Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, became generally available in late May 2025. AWS open-sourced the AWS Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an AI-powered assistant to guide architects in building serverless apps. AWS API Gateway added support for dynamic routing rules on June 3, 2025, enabling more flexible versioning and traffic management for microservice APIs. AWS Lambda expanded SnapStart to more global regions and gained native Avro/Protobuf support in Kafka event triggers. Amazon Redshift Serverless introduced a new lower 4 RPU minimum to optimize costs for smaller workloads. At re:Inforce in late June,