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Serverless architectures: AWS Lambda

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Serverless architectures: AWS Lambda

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- [Instructor] Cloud computing has always been about abstraction and virtualization. One of the very first offerings was virtual servers. With virtual servers, the specific hardware and physical components like racks, cords, and connections were abstracted out. The management and configuration effort was shifted only to the software running on the servers. In AWS, this level of abstraction is achieved with EC2, the virtual servers. As cloud service offerings increased and matured more abstraction became available in the form of containers. With containers, the specific OS software and supporting network libraries are abstracted out. The user could now just focus on specific application components. In AWS, examples of services offering this level of abstraction are ECS and Elastic Beanstalk. Servers are still running but choices don't have to be made about the underlying OS and supporting packages and libraries on the…

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