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Serverless services

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Serverless services

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- [Instructor] Serverless, or just someone else's servers? The jokes write themselves, and I'm not here to start the debate, but in an extremely high level, serverless helps developers build and run applications without having to manage their own servers, physical or virtual. The servers do exist, likely in the cloud computing platform's data centers, but they're so abstracted away from the application development that the developer does not have to worry about the provisioning, maintaining, or scaling the infrastructure. AWS has two major serverless compute services available to their users, AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. Let's quickly take a look at both. AWS Lambda is probably one of the most popular services on AWS. It allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. It's an event-driven, pay-as-you-go compute service, so when an event triggers the code to run, that's the only time it's running, and that's the only time you're getting charged. An example of it in…

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