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Developing code for AWS Lambda

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Developing code for AWS Lambda

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- [Instructor] AWS Lambda is a serverless, event driven computing service in AWS that allows you to run your code, function, or an entire application without managing any servers. With AWS Lambda, you only pay for the compute time that you actually consume and not including the idle time in which your computing resource is not used at all. It is a fully managed serverless service in AWS, where you can neither access nor manage the underlying server that powers your Lambda function. This technology differs from a regular Amazon EC2 instance that you can manage and connect to via SSH. AWS Lambda supports multiple programming languages such as Java, Go, Ruby, Node.js, Python, and others using runtimes. An uploaded code in AWS Lambda is called a Lambda function. These functions can perform a custom task that you can develop, control or program. A Lambda function has a handler, which is just a method in your function code that processes events. The handler method is actually the one that…

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