An introduction to the use cases
This chapter will allow you to combine and practice many concepts we have covered throughout this book. For some of the components of this example, you may be able to use other AWS services. For example, in this case, you will choose AWS Lambda for our implementation, but as you saw in Chapter13, Container in AWS, AWS offers a few other services that can be used instead of or in conjunction with AWS Lambda.
Two reasons why AWS Lambda is popular are listed here:
- The ability to quickly and effortlessly scale in and scale out
- In the pay-per-call pricing model, users only pay when calling a Lambda function
Remember that to take full advantage of AWS Lambda; you should pair up our solution with other AWS solutions that offer similar flexibility regarding scalability.
Now that you have an overall high-level architecture, the next step is to decide which services to use to implement these components. AWS offers a wide variety of services and solutions...
