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Highlighting Lambda

Highlighting Lambda - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Highlighting Lambda

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- Lambda is a cornerstone or foundational service of the serverless application model. It's a serverless infrastructure type of service in that you have a piece of code and you want this code to be executed based on some sort of trigger. Something is going to initiate the execution of this code. Lambda, it could be equated with a worker as we see here in this icon. On the left, we have our Lambda worker. It is pushing some sort of data sitting in this mining cart. Amazon Lambda or AWS Lambda run code without thinking about servers or clusters. It is a serverless compute type of service. You have a piece of code, you give it to Amazon and say, "Run this for me." We have this, it's analogous to anonymous Lambda functions. That's probably where the name came from. So serverless compute, you have a piece of code. Here, Amazon run this code for me. Execute it when it's needed. Scale it when it's needed to be scaled. Pay for it when it's executing. Don't pay for it if it's not executing…

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