The original pitch for cloud computing is the ability to scale computing power to the needs and growth of your organization–without provisioning the physical hardware in advance, or dealing with the ...

Get an overview of AWS Lambda's nanoservices architecture and execution model, then build your first Lambda function in Java Serverless computing may be the hottest thing in cloud computing today, but ...

Most companies today develop applications and deploy them on servers — whether on-premises or in the cloud. That means figuring out how much server, storage and database power they need ahead of time, ...

When Amazon Web Services Inc. launched Lambda 10 years ago, it was a bold experiment that would go on to reshape the cloud computing landscape. Serverless computing, a term that scarcely existed ...

Serverless computing's poster child software is Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Lambda. It only has one little problem: You can use it on AWS. If you're wedded to AWS, that's not a problem, but if you want ...

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Israeli startup Rookout Inc. is hoping to fill a niche in the market for debugging software, providing application code monitoring tools for Amazon Web Services’ serverless computing platform Amazon ...

A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, ...

Amazon Web Services has the potential to do to cloud server instances what virtualization and cloud computing did to physical servers. In short, AWS may be rendering the management of any ...

What happens to Amazon's $10bn revenues from pay-as-you-go servers if serverless app dev takes hold? With Lambda, AWS bets it can win either way There's an old adage in the technology industry that ...