Creating alternative pipelines with Lambda Functions
Indeed, SageMaker is an awesome platform that you can use to create training and inference pipelines. However, you can always work with different services to come up with similar solutions. One of these services, which you will learn about next, is known as Lambda functions.
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service where you can run a function as a service. In other words, you can concentrate your efforts on just writing your function. Then, you just need to tell AWS how to run it (that is, the environment and resource configurations), so all the necessary resources will be provisioned to run your code and then discontinued once it is completed.
Throughout Chapter 3, AWS Services for Data Migration and Processing, you explored how Lambda functions integrate with many different services, such as Kinesis and AWS Batch. Indeed, AWS did a very good job of integrating Lambda with 140+ services (and the list is constantly increasing...
