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Lambda

Lambda - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Cert Prep (February 2025)

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Lambda

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- The first service we want to talk about in detail in this chapter is the Lambda service. What if I told you there's a service in AWS that will allow you to take some code written in a compatible language, put it into the AWS Cloud and simply have it run, not worrying about building up a server instance or any of the other components that are needed for that application code to work. Would you be interested in knowing what you could use to do that? Well, the good news is it's Lambda. Lambda falls into the compute category and it is a tool that allows you to do exactly that. So Lambda is an AWS compute service that runs code without servers. Now, that's not to say there aren't any servers anywhere running the code. There must be a server running the code but you don't have to create those server instances. Lambda runs on the AWS Lambda architecture without you worrying about the server it's going to run on per se and…

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