AWS: Developers Guide to AWS Lambda The Ultimate Beginners Guide

AWS: Developers Guide to AWS Lambda The Ultimate Beginners Guide

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda lets you run JavaScript (Node.js), Java & Python scripts/apps in Amazon's (virtually) infinately-scalable cloud environment without having provision VM instances or other "orquestration"; Everything is dynamically auto-scaled so if you have 1 user or 1 billion you pay for usage.<br />AWS are effectively disrupting their (own) existing business with Lambda. Instead of forcing us to pay for EC2 instances in fixed increments and have complex application monitoring/scaling, AWS have built a much simpler way of building & running micro-services.<br />Lambda also disrupts other Platform-as-a-Service ("PaaS") providers such as Heroku, Google App Engine, Azure or Modulus where you pay for a specific amount of compute power & RAM but have a scaling delay and scale in a fixed increment(instances).