Introduction to AWS Lambda

Each cloud provider has its own serverless application type. For example, Azure (owned by Microsoft) has Azure Functions, and Google Cloud has Google Cloud Functions. AWS, which is owned by Amazon, has AWS Lambda, which we’re going to learn more about in this lesson. But first, let’s briefly go over AWS in general.

Introduction to AWS

AWS is a comprehensive cloud computing platform offered by Amazon. It provides a wide range of cloud services that allow businesses and individuals to build, deploy, and manage various applications and services in a flexible and scalable manner.

Here are some key aspects and services offered by AWS.

• Computing services: AWS provides a variety of computing resources to run applications and workloads. The core computing service is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which offers virtual servers known as instances.

  • EC2 allows users to select the desired instance type, configure the operating system, and scale resources as needed.

  • Additionally, AWS offers specialized computing services like AWS Lambda for serverless computing, AWS Batch for batch processing, and Elastic Beanstalk for deploying applications without worrying about infrastructure setup. ...