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Is the biggest difference between "vanilla" AWS and AWS Lambda the use of containers?

 
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I took some time and quickly scanned the first chapter from Manning's site, as well as the AWS lambda site.
From what I could tell from that quick read, seems that AWS Lambda provides (more or less) the same functionality as AWS, but in a simpler manner using containers.
Is that fairly close?
Thanks!
 
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Lanny Gilbert wrote:I took some time and quickly scanned the first chapter from Manning's site, as well as the AWS lambda site.
From what I could tell from that quick read, seems that AWS Lambda provides (more or less) the same functionality as AWS, but in a simpler manner using containers.
Is that fairly close?
Thanks!


You're welcome! Simplification is definitely one of the big advantages of AWS Lambda. The use of containers is part of the solution, but the fact that you can put your code, and create a function, without having to think of how many containers (zero, one, or more) will be used to support that function, is one of the reason people started to use the term "serverless" in this case. You really can focus on logic (functions) and data (that can trigger functions), and not managing infrastructure or containers. AWS Lambda provides an environment where prototyping a new feature is easy, and deploying that feature in production doesn't require to refactor it.
 
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