AWS — Difference between Serverless (Lambda) and Containers (Kubernetes)
Comparisons: Serverless vs Containers (Lambda vs Kubernetes). How to choose?
TL;DR:
Serverless and Containers have some high-level similarities. They eliminate complexity and make it easier to deploy and scale applications.
Serverless works well if you need to perform relatively simple processing of events without maintaining underlying infrastructure. Containers are the ideal choice if you need full control over the application hosting environment.
What is Serverless?
Serverless computing allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers. Serverless applications don’t require you to provision, scale, and manage any servers. You can build them for nearly any type of application or backend service, and everything required to run and scale your application with high availability is handled for you.
Building serverless applications means that you can focus on your core product instead of worrying about managing and operating servers or runtimes. You are only responsible for providing the serverless function and are not aware of the underlying compute resources. The serverless runtime provisions server resources automatically, and customers are…
