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Lambda - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Lambda

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- [Instructor] In the previous videos we saw that Amazon EC2 allows you to deploy servers in the AWS Cloud. AWS has another service called Lambda, that provides serverless compute capacity. With Lambda, you can run code without provisioning or managing servers. When you use Lambda, AWS performs all the administration of the compute resources, such as, server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning, and automatic scaling, code monitoring, and logging. To get started, you need to supply your code in one of the languages that Lambda supports and organize it into Lambda functions. You pay only for the compute time you consume. There is no charge when your code is not running. You can also configure other AWS services to trigger your Lambda function, or configure it to run at a scheduled time. Administrators find Lambda to be a valuable service as it frees them from having to manage servers to host and run code.…

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