Getting Started with AWS Lambda
Let's get started with AWS Lamda.
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AWS Lambda ticks the usual managed FaaS boxes. It’s a service that allows us to deploy and manage functions while ignoring the existence of servers.
Functions don’t run on thin air, but this time it’s AWS making sure that they’re up and running. The solution scales automatically based on the load. It has monitoring, logging, debugging, security, and so on and so forth.
Note: You may have noticed that this started with the same sentences as those from the other managed FaaS chapters. That’s intentional. We wanted to make it easy to compare each solution but also cover everything, so nothing is missed if you only follow the examples for one solution.
All managed FaaS solutions we’re exploring are doing, more or less, the same things, so we can skip that part and jump straight into practical hands-on examples.
Prerequisites
Before we start deploying AWS Lambda, we need to get credentials, and we might need to install a few ...