Learn AWS Serverless Computing

Automation as a Service

Nowadays, there are services, such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform, which automate a significant amount of the configuration that's required for provisioning and running applications and infrastructure. Often, there is a requirement for some tasks to be performed that have the potential to be automated but are completely bespoke and not supported by the tools we mentioned earlier. This is where serverless really shines. Through the use of functions as a service (FaaS) tools such as AWS Lambda, you can convert your existing automation script into something generic and host it independently.

Let's take the original example of a Java application deployed on a Linux server and a .NET application on a Windows server. ...