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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

Monitoring and optimizing the cost of the infrastructure


In the early stages, if you do not estimate and optimize Lambda costs, then your Lambda functions can cost thousands of dollars unnecessarily. You can save this money with pre-planning and cost optimizations.

The cost of AWS Lambda is cheaper when you have a low volume, but when you start executing it on a production scale, then you can't ignore it.

How does Lambda pricing work?

AWS Lambda is a pay-as-you-go service in cloud computing. You can upload the function, execute it, and pay for the execution time. If you don't execute the function or it is idle, then you don't pay anything.

The following factors can determine the cost of AWS Lambda:

  • You will pay for the number of times the Lambda function executes.
  • It depends on the duration of each Lambda function execution. You will pay more if your function takes a long time to execute. This will encourage you to write efficient application code. The maximum timeout for a Lambda function is...
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