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CD and serverless architectures

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CD and serverless architectures

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- [Instructor] As we're considering application automation, we need to think about typical architecture layers, and these include the internet layer, networking, the front end, or user interface, and the service layers, which include n number of middle tier or processing layers and n number of data layers. In traditional application architectures hosted on Amazon, most of these layers have been hosted on virtualized servers. So EC2 instances, in the case of front end and middle tier, and RDS, or relational database, instances that are EC2 instances with managed databases on them. This is changing though, and changing rapidly. And that's because Amazon is leading the way with a set of services that they call Serverless. It's kind of a misnomer, and the big one that has been announced over the past year or so is AWS Lambda, which is Amazon hosting functions rather than servers or containers in the case of Docker. And charging their customer's dramatically less money, because their…

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