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Use cases

In serverless applications, I view Lambda functions as a way of providing the glue between services and integration components. It is one of the main building blocks in AWS and enables event-driven architectures to work on a massive scale.

Lambda is great for other uses, which are specified as follows:

• Backend compute: When applications and services need an engine to process business logic. A great example is using functions for the backend of an API. RESTful APIs are event-driven by nature and fit into the request and response model.
• Web applications: Everything from serverless static websites to more complex apps.
• Data processing: Lambda is perfect for real-time processing and serves to replace batch patterns by running massively ...