AWS Lambda Introduction - What is it and Why is it Useful?

AWS Lambda is a powerful service that allows developers to worry less about the hardware, and worry more about the applications. Learn about what AWS Lambda is, how it came to be, and why its so useful in this introductory video.
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[@sursargam-nimish]

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[@dylan_poley]

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[@Liv4IT]

Useful precise and get to the point video thank you 😊

[@hameddadgour]

Great video. Thank you for sharing!

[@MhyB09]

very helpful and well explained. thank you

[@lifelesstutorialbuilder1]

rise and shine mister freeman, *r i s e*

[@NicoTsiridis]

Fantastic explanation, thanks!

[@AbdulRehman-hc9kc]

Very well explained

[@user-wn3gl8ej8y]

Great material, thank u.

[@BeABetterDev]

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[@bobbyvishal8773]

Clean and simple

[@anthonyparrett2779]

Really looking forward to more information about cold starts, especially when it comes to micro service architecture, if possible. Maybe even cost comparisons between running a server 24/7 with something like ECS/Fargate vs. using provisioned concurrency.

[@app-o-matix]

You might check out “Serverless Architectures on AWS - Second Edition” by Peter Sbarski, Yan Cui, and Ajay Nair. It discusses real life implementations using Lambda and Fargate with some mention of cost considerations. Am reading it now. Be sure to get the second edition, though, which is a very recent release.

[@t1910j]

Enlightening!

[@mostinho7]

Done thanks

[@akab211]

Perhaps Gordon Freeman knows about lambdas?

[@sreedevi1648]

Excellent

[@user-sn2eu4ve2f]

VERY VERY GOOD

[@assadlayne6446]

really looking forward to your Udemy course but they don't seem to be having a sale right now - any chance of that happening soon or getting a coupon code?

[@rishiraj2548]

thanks

[@mrnobody5763]

I gonna take your course for sure. I want to ask U, what you would suggest the most for the local development environment setup between CDK and SAM? I need to use Lambda with Python for a project which will interact with SQS, Rest APIs and will probably use DynamoDB or Aurora for the data layer. Coming from the java world, I'd like to create lots of unit tests and mocks (I saw moto as framework) and be able to debug the code locally pointing to the real infrastructure or to mocks. With such requirements, what would you suggest between CDK and SAM? I saw the summary of your course and I didn't see anything regarding development environment setup, unit tests and mocks. Maybe something regarding CDK. If it is so, I suggest you to add something. Thank you a lot for all the work you do, really appreciated.

[@BeABetterDev]

Hi there. For infrastructure setup I suggest using cdk. For local testing, cdk has a new feature that lets you leverage Sam to execute your lambda code in a local docker container. I made a video on this recently called if you check my recent uploads. Hope this helps!

[@szeredaiakos]

If you can fill couple of datacenters with your company's infrastructure it is vastly cheaper to do it in-house. Agility included.

[@PankajVLOGZZz]

Can we deploy spring boot java application with lambda and dynamodb

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[@cashbin58]

Dawg that is just straight up the Half-life logo I mean its ORANGE for goodness sake

[@JohnTheHumbleMan]

Wonderful course! It seems that you don't participate Udemy promotions? :P

[@zuowang5185]

9:00 doesn't ec2 also 1. you don't not need to manage hardware 2. can use AWS builtin security 3. can autoscale 4. pay for what you use 5. performant 6. service integration 7. easy to use

[@josephrajareddy4606]

For lambda you’re billed when it is triggered, for ec2 you’re billed irrespective of usage.

[@Omarwaqar-pt7wf]

What if someone spams your service or do DDOs attack on it you wallet will drain so how to protect our lambda services from these attacks

[@trustypotato9998]

wait a seccond, isnt that the lambda on hal-

[@aplexcitygaming821]

Is lambda Iaac or Paac? I still get those mixed up

[@michellelunadev]

I think is PaaC because you dont need to install the runtime (Python, Node,etc), just choose it and write and execute code.

[@mrrishiraj88]

🙏👍👍

[@metrocop8484]

Oh god

[@momo_hl]

Have you seen a "Freeman" somewhere

[@Unit4170]

No

[@denifnaf5874]

Crowbar

[@neopabo]

I have a sinking feeling small companies that launch products using Lambda will suddenly, mysteriously, be competing with Amazon's identical product 6 months down the line. Hm.

[@splat752]

Possibly. I am wondering what kind of people use it and for what. If one uses it for data science, say, with a long running CPU intensive task how expensive would it be and would I be better off using a VPS?

[@Trickshotplayz2009i-un2ds]

Wait lambda is a real thing? I thought it was a half life thing

[@Toaster2thousand]

same

[@yoyoclockEbay]

He totally stole it from half life dude.

[@momo_hl]

Half life moment

[@Trickshotplayz2009i-un2ds]

Gordon freeman! And about time to.

[@ernestoendean-hughes1328]

Big day today freeman

[@smellyfarter20]

Have you seen my coffee cup?

[@denifnaf5874]

*STOP FUCKING WITH THE MICROVAWE!!!* -Generic scientist 694201337

[@dejay100]

I feel like companies who use lambda must have ridiculous ties.

[@dejay100]

he uses the half life logo in the thumbnail ☠

[@RandomN4me]

bro be using the half life lambda like its nothing

[@gfgh1234]

Half life real

[@TheLostProbe]

he doesn't know 💀💀

[@Aha5653ch.]

half life confirmed

[@somerandomaccount12]

HALF LIFE