Amazon Lambda

Amazon Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. It executes your code only when needed and scales automatically, handling everything from managing the underlying infrastructure to patching the operating system.…

Key facts

First appeared: 2014
Category: technology
Problem solved: Amazon Lambda solved the problem of developers and organizations having to provision, manage, and scale servers for their application code, especially for event-driven and intermittent workloads. Before Lambda, even with virtual machines or containers, engineers still bore the burden of infrastructure maintenance, patching, scaling, and cost optimization for idle resources.
Platforms: AWS Cloud

Related technologies

AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model)
Amazon S3
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Step Functions
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon SQS

Notable users

Coca-Cola
T-Mobile
Netflix
iRobot
A+E Networks
Capital One