Introduction

In the previous chapter, the architectural evolution of traditional architectures to serverless designs was discussed. In addition, the origin and benefits of serverless were presented to explain its high adoption and success in the industry. In this chapter, the focus will be on the serverless platforms of cloud providers. Let's start with the evolution of cloud technology offerings over the years.

At the start of cloud computing, the primary offering of cloud providers was its provisioned and ready-to-use hardware, namely the infrastructure. Cloud providers manage hardware and networking operations, and therefore, the product they were offering was Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), as illustrated in the following diagram. All cloud providers are still offering IaaS products as their core functionality, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in AWS and Google Compute Engine in GCP.

In the following years, cloud providers started to offer platforms...