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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?

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Dynatrace supports Amazon Linux 2023 as an AWS launch partner

Dynatrace

Available directly from the AWS Marketplace , Dynatrace provides full-stack observability and AI to help IT teams optimize the resiliency of their cloud applications from the user experience down to the underlying operating system, infrastructure, and services. Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed.

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The Easiest Way to Compute in the Cloud – AWS Lambda

All Things Distributed

Customers want to focus on their unique application logic and business needs – not on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of provisioning and scaling servers, keeping software stacks patched and up to date, handling fleet-wide deployments, or dealing with routine monitoring, logging, and web service front ends.

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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator. Pay Per Use.

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Many customers try to use traditional tools to monitor and observe modern software stacks, but they struggle to deal with the dynamic and changing nature of cloud environments.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

While microservices vs. monolithic architecture is a common debate, organizations have other considerations, like service-oriented architecture (SOA), tools, monitoring solutions, and potential migration issues. Additional complexity and monitoring challenges. As part of that complexity, monitoring microservices can become a challenge.

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. A modern commodity server can contain up to 1TB of RAM, and Lambda functions can use as little as 128MB.