State of ARC - November 2025

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Dear ARC Community,

Greetings from the ARC Team! 🌟

We’re beyond excited to bring you this month’s feature-rich update across the ARC ecosystem—designed to supercharge your development workflows and simplify cloud-native application management. From enhanced infrastructure-as-code (IaC) Terraform modules that automate complex provisioning tasks, to an innovative ARC SaaS that accelerates multi-tenant app development—this release delivers tangible productivity gains.

Let’s dive right in! 🚀

ARC IaC – Infrastructure Automation at Your Fingertips

1. Cognito pool - Standardize creation and management

The ARC Cognito User Pool module provides a standardized Terraform module to create and manage Amazon Cognito User Pools and associated resources.

Key Features

• Create and configure user pools with all available settings and also role based access control.
• Built-in security configurations following AWS recommendations.
• Support for multiple app clients with different configurations.
• Support for SAML, OIDC, and social identity providers along with MFA and adaptive authentication and log streaming.
• Support for Lambda triggers and custom domains with SSL certificates.

Explore ARC Cognito User Pool Module

Thanks to Debash Bora for his contribution!

2. SNS Module - Manage Topics and Subscriptions

A reusable SNS module to create and manage the Amazon Simple Notification Service topics and subscriptions.

Key Features

• Create standard or FIFO topics, with encryption (KMS), tags, delivery/tracing configs.
• Easily add subscriptions (Lambda, SQS, HTTP, etc.) with options like filter policies, raw delivery, and retry/delivery policies.
• Automatically grant SNS permission to invoke Lambdas.

Explore ARC SNS Module

Thanks to Arun Sai who made this possible.

3. ARC ECR Module — Secure, Scalable, and Simplified

The ARC ECR module automates and simplifies the creation and management of Amazon ECR repositories. With built-in configurations for encryption, image scanning, lifecycle policies, and replication, it ensures secure and consistent setup across environments.

Key Features

• Automated repository creation with encryption and scanning enabled.
• Centralized management of registry policies and lifecycle configurations.
• Support for replication and pull-through cache rules across multiple regions.
• Customizable repository policies and reusable creation templates.
• Prebuilt examples for rapid integration and deployment.

Discover more

Special Thanks to Nikhil Kottey for driving this enhancement.

4. ARC SQS Module — Reliable, Secure, and Flexible Queue Management

The ARC SQS module streamlines the setup and management of Amazon SQS queues by offering built-in support for Standard and FIFO queues, Dead Letter Queues (DLQs), encryption options, and advanced message configurations. It helps developers easily build reliable, secure, and scalable messaging architectures.

Key Features

• Supports both Standard and FIFO queues with full configuration flexibility.
• Automatically provisions DLQs with retry policy options for improved fault tolerance.
• Choose between SQS-managed SSE or customer-managed KMS encryption with automatic key rotation.
• Fine-grained control over message retention, visibility timeouts, delivery delays, and long polling.

Learn More

Thanks to Arun Sai who made this possible.

Explore ARC IaC

ARC SaaS - SaaS Factory Model for Control Plane

1. Decoupling EventBridge - Unified Event Handling for SaaS Microservices: ARC SaaS microservices now uses loopback4-message-bus-connector enabling seamless way to publish and consume provisioning and deprovisioning events. It decouples event producers and consumers, enabling flexible, scalable, and extensible event-driven architectures. The module currently supports SQS, BullMQ, and EventBridge, with future integrations planned.

Key Features

• Simplifies interaction between microservices using standardized provisioning/deprovisioning events.
• Works with SQS, BullMQ, and EventBridge out of the box.
• Enables end users to choose their preferred message queue or broker.
• Built with extensibility in mind to support additional event brokers in upcoming releases.

Huge Thanks to Vaibhav Bhalla who made this possible!

Discover ARC SaaS

ARC UI – Enabling Better User Experiences and Developer Productivity

Coming Soon

UI Boilerplates + MCP Command Integration
We’re excited to share that soon a major enhancement to the ARC CLI will come into action— UI Boilerplates, now accessible directly through the MCP command suite!
With this update, you can quickly scaffold, configure, and inspect Angular and React projects using ARC’s standardized boilerplates — all from the command line.

Learn more about ARC UI

That’s a wrap for this month’s updates! 🙂

We can’t wait to see how you leverage these powerful updates from streamlined infrastructure modules to more adaptable ARC SaaS. As always, your feedback drives our innovation. Share your thoughts, ideas, or questions.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the months ahead, and happy coding!

Best wishes,
The ARC Team 😎