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ARC Region switch adds Lambda event source mapping execution block for event handling during failover

calendar_today May 14, 2026 person aws@amazon.com domain aws

Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch helps customers orchestrate the failover of their multi-Region applications to achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment. Today, we are announcing the Lambda event source mapping execution block, which automates the coordinated failover of event streams for multi-Region workloads. Customers running event-driven architectures use Lambda functions with event source mappings to process event streams from Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams, MSK, or SQS.

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