Hands-On Serverless Computing

Summary

In this chapter, you learned what AWS Lambda is, the language runtimes it supports, and how it automatically provisions and manages the infrastructure for your functions so that you can focus on solving business problems rather than spending time on ensuring the infrastructure is highly available and scalable. We also learned about how AWS Lambda works and use cases such as stream-based processing, data processing, web applications, and mobile and IoT backends where AWS Lambda is currently being used. We then learned about the Execution environment of AWS Lambda.

We then learned how to create a Hello World Lambda function using the AWS Lambda console. We learned how to make changes through the AWS Lambda console, publish a new version ...