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Datadog Expands Observability and Security Support for AWS Serverless Workloads
New functionality helps AWS Lambda and Step Functions users leverage services instrumented with OpenTelemetry, troubleshoot issues faster, and detect security
About this update from Datadog, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"New functionality helps AWS Lambda and Step Functions users leverage services instrumented with OpenTelemetry, troubleshoot issues faster, and detect security threats and vulnerabilities\nLAS VEGAS, Nov. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced expanded security and observability support for AWS serverless applications built on AWS Lambda and Step Functions services. The functionality announced today at AWS re:Invent helps AWS Lambda and Step Functions users detect security threats, get a high-level overview of how their state machine is performing at a single point in time and monitor services instrumented with OpenTelemetry.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nServerless applications eliminate the need to provision and manage infrastructure components, including servers, databases, queues and containers, so teams can focus on writing code while minimizing their operational overhead. These applications also come with unique challenges as they need to be monitored and secured in different ways than traditional applications. Datadog already provides out-of-the-box observability for AWS serverless applications and today expanded these capabilities to include:\nSupport for W3C Trace Context Propagation Across All Lambda Runtimes: Teams can now view complete distributed traces across upstream and downstream services that have been instrumented by various OpenTelemetry-compatible instrumentation libraries. This provides teams with improved visibility into their serverless applications so they can efficiently troubleshoot any issues.AWS Lambda OpenTelemetry API Compatibility Custom Instrumentation: Developers can now use vendor-neutral code instrumentation to submit custom OpenTelemetry spans from Lambda applications to Datadog in Node.JS and Python runtimes, allowing them to adhere to open source standards.Threat Detection for Serverless Applications Deployed on AWS Lambda Functions: The new support enables both DevOps and security engineers to detect and protect against attacks targeting their applications running on AWS Lambda functions.Open Source Vulnerability Detection for AWS Lambda Functions: Available in public beta, this capability provides engineers with real-time, continuous vulnerability detection in third-party libraries that are being run i...