AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood

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8 min readJan 25

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Originally published in AWS Compute Blog

This post is written by Adrian Hornsby (Principal System Dev Engineer) and Marcia Villalba (Principal Developer Advocate).

AWS Lambda comprises over 80 services working together to provide the serverless compute service that it offers to customers. Under the hood, many of these services are built on top of Amazon Elastic Compute…

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