Serverless in Five Minutes

This chapter explains the financial and technical constraints of serverless deployments. You will learn when and why AWS Lambda is a good option for hosting software, and when a different service might be a better choice.

Introduction to serverless architecture #

Serverless applications, at the most basic technical level, are software that runs in an environment where the hosting provider is fully responsible for infrastructural and operational tasks. These include receiving network requests, scaling the computing infrastructure on demand, monitoring, and recovery.

Instead of containers bundling application business logic with an operating system, network servers (such as web servers or message brokers) and business logic code, serverless applications only need to provide ...