AWS Lambda Launch

Amazon Web Services launched Lambda, its groundbreaking serverless compute service, allowing developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers, triggered by events.

Significance

This event effectively pioneered the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model, setting the industry standard and inspiring other cloud providers, including Alibaba, to develop their own serverless offerings.

Key facts

Date
2014-11-13
Type
invention
Location
Las Vegas, USA (re:Invent conference)