AWS Lambda Deep Dive Pt 1

Serverless compute and a favorite service for many

Hello anons, avatars, cartoons, and the real ones among us. Celt here today to talk about AWS Lambda. Lambda is a very interesting service in that it provides ‘serverless’ compute. AWS has abstracted everything from the customer, except the application code, permissions, and some configurations. This greatly increases time to market for the customer, as all they really need to do is write the code, and attach the correct permissions. Yes many people do not like the term serverless but lets just move on. This post is going to be broken down into parts, to keep things digestible and actionable.

REQUIRED READING

1. Why Cloud Makes Sense

2. Fundamental Cloud Jargon

3. Why Serverless (Adopt or NGMI)

AWS Lambda

When we say serverless compute, essentially you are consuming the execution of code on an environment that AWS manages. AWS managing the infrastructure provides many benefits, which are going to be expanded on in the Selling Points section. Lambda is very common service that almost every production account utilizes in some way.

Selling Points