InfoQ - Cloud Architecture

AWS Lambda's Self-Managed Code Storage Lifts the Account Quota, Not the Function Size Limit

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:57:00 GMT

AWS Lambda can now reference deployment packages directly in customer-owned S3 buckets, removing the per-Region code storage quota and raising the managed default from 75 GB to 300 GB. Per-function package limits are unchanged, and UpdateFunctionCode is still required after replacing an object. Terraform provider support remains an open enhancement request.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Airbus Makes Protection from Extraterritorial Law a Scored Criterion in its Cloud Tender

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:42:00 GMT

Airbus selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after a tender that scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation alongside technical capability. Airbus frames it as complementing multi-cloud, not exiting AWS. Practitioners note the pattern is spreading past hyperscalers to small US SaaS vendors, and that sovereignty claims still require verifiable controls.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers