AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files

AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files, letting you configure which storage your functions read from: S3 Files high-performance storage or your S3 bucket. With this launch, you can optimize the throughput and latency of file reads for your Lambda functions based on your application requirements. Customers use S3 Files with Lambda functions to build scalable data processing pipelines and stateful agentic workloads with the performance and simplicity of a file system, while benefiting from the scalability, durability, and cost-effectiveness of S3.