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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. What is AWS Lambda? Where does Lambda fit in the AWS ecosystem?

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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. AWS serverless offerings. Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity.

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How To Run a Docker Container on the Cloud: Top 5 CaaS Solutions

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Containerization simplifies the software development process because it eliminates dealing with dependencies and working with specific hardware. AWS ECS AWS Lambda AWS App Runner Azure Container Instances Google Cloud Run Conclusion But, it can be quite confusing how to run a container on the cloud.

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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

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This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

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You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Another aspect of microservices is how the service itself relates to the underlying hardware.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

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Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?