In retrospect, it was an obvious thing to do; AWS had for a long time developed services that abstracted the user or application away from the underlying infrastructure, such as the database service Amazon RDS.
But the repercussion of introducing an AWS Service that simply ran your code without the need for a server is slowly but surely changing the IT industry and is certainly seen by all as the way forward for traditional application development.
For the last 30 years, we’ve bought, built, run, and managed servers – physical servers, virtual servers, LPARs, desktops, virtual desktops. And ...