AWS Lambda
Lambda is somewhat of a next evolution in abstracting the hardware away from the application. Virtualization such as EC2 took the pain of dealing with hardware away from operations teams; Lambda does the same but to the operating system and scaling. The AWS Lambda lets you create custom code called Lambda functions, which are written in Node.js, Python, Java, and C# that will be triggered automatically in response to events. Those events can be emitted by your own application and a number of managed services. Among the services we previously explored are S3, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, Kinesis, and Aurora, but the list of services that integrate with Lambda is a lot longer than this. You can read more about the different services ...
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