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Hybrid architectures

Hybrid architectures - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Hybrid architectures

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- Some systems may not be suitable for a completely serverless approach. This video will help you understand the AWS services that can be leveraged when a hybrid architecture is required. Real-world, complex systems cannot always be put in a completely serverless architecture. In the AWS cloud environment you may encounter situations where the limits around lambda functions make it necessary to build certain components differently. AWS lambda imposes a few limits. The first is execution time. Until recently, execution time was capped at five minutes. Today, it is 15 minutes. There is 3,008 megs limit on RAM, processing cores are managed behind the scenes, and scale up based on the RAM selection, but are otherwise, something of a black box. There are also some limitations around triggering of Lambdas via events or messages. The fall back from Lambda for serverless compute is to move to a containerized architecture for…

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