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What is AWS Lambda?

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The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Organizations are realizing the cost savings and management benefits of serverless automation.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

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Xtracerx : for me the biggest value to serverless functions is how nicely they tie in to the ecosystem of a cloud provider. using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped.

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