State of ARC - January 2026

[yeshamavani]

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 infrastructure provisioning, to a new extension that simplifies MCP integration, and upgraded Angular libraries—this release delivers meaningful productivity gains across the board.

Let’s dive right in! 🚀

ARC IaC – Infrastructure Automation at Your Fingertips

1. FSx Module – File Storage Made Easy

The ARC Terraform FSx module simplifies provisioning and managing Amazon FSx across all supported file system types. It comes with built-in Active Directory integration, enterprise-grade storage capabilities, and ready-to-use examples for both Windows and Linux workloads.

Key Features

Supports all FSx types

• Windows File Server
• Lustre (Scratch & Persistent, S3-linked)
• ONTAP
• OpenZFS
• FSx File Cache

Active Directory Integration

• AWS Managed Microsoft AD
• Self-managed Active Directory

Enterprise Storage Capabilities

• ONTAP SVMs and volumes
• OpenZFS volumes, quotas, and snapshots
• Lustre Data Repository Associations

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Special Thanks to Manikanta Sadurla for driving this enhancement.

2. IAM Identity Center Module – Centralized Access at Scale

The ARC IAM Identity Center module simplifies centralized management of AWS IAM Identity Center, enabling scalable permission set management, secure account assignments, identity store automation, and advanced access controls—with production-ready examples.

Key Features

Permission Set Management - Supports AWS-managed, customer-managed, and inline policies.

Permission Boundaries - Attach AWS-managed or customer-managed permission boundaries for enhanced security.

Account Assignments- Flexible user and group assignments across AWS accounts or Organizational Units (OUs).

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Contributed by Manikanta Sadurla.

3. CloudFront

We’ve introduced new enhancements to the module focused on improving availability, security, and configurability.

What’s New

• Added support for Origin Groups (Disaster Recovery) with primary and secondary origins to enable high availability, failover, and logging.
• Introduced Response Headers Policies, including security headers, CORS configuration, and custom response header management.

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Contributed by Vijay Stephen

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ARC API – Plug and Play to speed Development

1. MCP Tool - Register methods to an MCP

A new LoopBack extension that enables developers to expose their APIs and services as MCP Tools, allowing MCP clients to seamlessly discover and execute server-defined operations. It offers a true plug-and-play integration between LoopBack 4 applications and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Key Features

Automatic MCP Tool Discovery- Automatically scans the application at boot time and registers all methods decorated with @mcptool(), eliminating manual metadata wiring.

Lifecycle-Managed Tool Registry- A dedicated McpToolRegistry service manages discovered tools, their handlers, and execution context in a clean, structured way.

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Thanks to Vaibhav Bhalla and Muzammil Lakdawala for driving this through.

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ARC UI - Enabling Better User Experiences

1. Angular Upgrade while using signals

Our Angular libraries search-client and user-onboarding-client now run on Angular v19, delivering better performance and stability. This release also introduces Angular Signals, enabling a more modern and reactive approach to state management.

Thanks to Vaibhav Bhalla and Yesha Mavani for this contribution.

Coming Soon

1. Latest Angular Version and Using Signals

Our Angular libraries will be upgraded to the latest Angular versions for improved performance and long-term support. We’ll also adopt Angular Signals to enable more efficient, reactive state management with cleaner and more predictable data flows.

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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 😎