From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services Lambda

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Lambda overview

Lambda overview

- [Instructor] AWS Lambda is the main topic of this course. What it is, and when you should use it. AWS refers to Lambda as serverless computing. What does that mean? Serverless services adhere to free criteria. You pay for the services used. You don't need to manage infrastructure. And the service scales automatically, up and down depending on the traffic. AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to trigger automatically from other AWS services, or you can code it directly from any web or mobile application. How does Lambda works? The first thing you need to do is to upload your code to AWS Lambda. I will demonstrate in this course that there…

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