Introducing AWS Lambda native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Apache Kafka events | Amazon Web Services

Jun 23, 2025

By Julian Wood and Nihar Sheth

Initially published on AWS Compute Blog

AWS Lambda now provides native support for Apache Avro and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) formatted events with Apache Kafka event source mapping (ESM) when using Provisioned Mode. The support allows you to validate your schema with popular schema registries. This allows you to use and filter the more efficient binary event formats and share data using […]