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Expert AWS Development

You're reading from   Expert AWS Development Efficiently develop, deploy, and manage your enterprise apps on the Amazon Web Services platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477581
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Atul Mistry Atul Mistry
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Preface 1. AWS Tools and SDKs FREE CHAPTER 2. Integrating Applications with AWS Services 3. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflow 4. CI/CD in AWS Part 1 – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and Testing 5. CI/CD in AWS Part 2 – CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and CodeStar 6. User Authentication with AWS Cognito 7. Evaluating the Best Architecture 8. Traditional Web Hosting – Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing 9. Amazon EC2 Container Service 10. Amazon Lambda – AWS Serverless Architecture 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Serverless architecture with Lambda


AWS Lambda is a compute service. It is called a  serverless architecture because you will not provision or manage any servers. Your code will execute whenever you need it. It will scale automatically to 1,000 requests per second.

You will pay for the compute time that you consume to run the code; there is no extra charge when the code is idle. You can virtually run the code for any type of application and backend service, with zero administration.

AWS Lambda provides high-availability compute infrastructure to perform the administration of resources. This includes operating systems and server maintenance, automatic scaling, capacity provisioning, code monitoring, and logging.

You need to write your code in an AWS Lambda supported language; currently AWS Lambda supports Java, Node.js, C#, Go, and Python.

AWS Lambda is also known as event-driven architecture. It will execute the code in response to any events, such as if file is uploaded or downloaded into an...

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