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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

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? Dynatrace news.

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

Query processing could consist of multiple steps and each step could require its own partitioning strategy, so data shuffling is an operation frequently performed by distributed databases. This strategy is applicable for joining of a large relation with a small relation or two small relations. Marz, “Big Data Lambda Architecture”.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

Customers also use a variety of different tools, including Amazon EMR for Hadoop, Amazon Machine Learning, AWS Data Pipeline, and AWS Lambda to process and analyze their data. There’s an inherent gap between the data that is collected, stored, and processed and the key decisions that business users make on a daily basis.

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