From the course: AWS for Developers: Data-Driven Serverless Applications with Kinesis (2019)

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AWS Lambda basic concepts

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From the course: AWS for Developers: Data-Driven Serverless Applications with Kinesis (2019)

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AWS Lambda basic concepts

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- [Instructor] We already learned what is serverless. Now let's get a little bit more technical, and start talking about AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda is part of the serverless offering. Here you can see many services that are offer by AWS that are serverless. We will use many of these services during the course. In this video, we will focus on Lambda. Now we can start talking about AWS Lambda, that is the function as a service platform from AWS. Lambda let's you run small functions in the cloud. We already talk about the function as a service platform. Lambda supports many languages. Node.js, Python, C Sharp, Java, and Go. And you can bring your own code as well using Lambda Layers. But that's, it's outside the scope of this course. Besides choosing which languages to use, you can also select how much memory your Lambda will use, from 128 megabytes to three gigabytes. Also, when you tweak your memory allocation, you're also getting faster computing power. Lambda can be triggered by many…

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