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Securing serverless and function as a service (FaaS)
From the course: Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Cert Prep
Securing serverless and function as a service (FaaS)
- [Instructor] Let's get into securing serverless and function as a service. Whereas containers are designed to house and run entire applications, servers or function as a service focus on providing a code snippet that is typically triggered by an event or a call from another application. The leading providers include Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and AWS Lambda. The term serverless and function as a service imply that you don't have to manage any server capabilities when creating your code snippet. Unlike a container, which must be associated with a host or node, the function exists solely as an event-triggered code snippet. Therefore, a VM can host a container and a container can host a function that a developer can work with directly. Let's say the organization managing the CRM application needs to invoke a message queue to an agent to initiate a live chat. That message queue invocation could be in the form of a function. The cool thing is that any number of applications…
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