AWS Lambda for Dummies — Serverless Computing on the Cloud
Beginner’s Guide to AWS Lambda. Learn about the core concepts, major components, and features of the Lambda service.
With the trend of serverless architectures in recent years, AWS lambda has emerged as one of the most widely used services within the AWS Cloud infrastructure. By serverless we don’t mean there are no servers, they are just not managed by us instead the cloud provider handles their provisioning and management we just use the services at our discretion. Just like EC2 is a virtual server in the cloud, AWS Lambda is a virtual function in the cloud and is intended to provide the Functions as a Service (FaaS) functionality.
It is a serverless compute service that allows you to run your programs or code without having to set up and manage any servers and allows you to develop all types of back-end services for any kind of web or mobile application or data processing pipelines. It is a highly scalable on-demand service and being serverless requires zero administration. Just set up the function configurations like RAM and execution duration, deploy your code in one of the supported programming languages, and the service is ready to be used.
