September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
14h 24m
English
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Chapter 12 AWS Lambda
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER
- Introduction to AWS Lambda
- Creating a Python Lambda function
- Testing an AWS Lambda function
- Viewing execution logs
- Deleting AWS Lambda functions and Amazon CloudWatch log groups
AWS Lambda is a service that lets you run code on the Amazon cloud without provisioning servers. Amazon manages the infrastructure needed to run your code, and you are billed for the time when your code is running.
AWS Lambda code is triggered in response to events. AWS can trigger events for a variety of scenarios, such as a file being uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket, a change in an Amazon DynamoDB table, arrival of data on an Amazon Kinesis stream, and so on. With AWS Lambda, you can provide some code that can be triggered ...