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Using Lambda for operational readiness

Using Lambda for operational readiness

- [Instructor] In this class, we've talked about automation and using automation to try to replace some of the manual tasks that we may have used in the past. And the automation tool that you're going to end up using in some measure at AWS is Lambda. Lambda is a great choice to help you out to be ready for operating your application in the cloud and responding to the application issues. Lambda allows you to create a custom function, and this is something that could be written in any programming language. And a lot of times at AWS, they will use Lambda as the engine that will be called to carry out a task. And so you might have a situation where you have a workload, which becomes overloaded. Well, you get notified, but you also might want to notify Lambda to carry out a custom task to solve that problem. As mentioned, you can create a function in most any programming language. And once you either create the function within the Lambda console or upload your function in a ZIP file, then…

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