Introduction to AWS Lambda - Serverless Compute on Amazon Web Services

[lelandrb]

This is genuinely a really well made (and written) video. I feel like I could show non-tech people this and they'd walk away with the gist – if not all the specifics – of what Lambda functions do. Kudos to the group that made this :)

[pging]

One of the few marketing videos that was clearly understandable to programmers, and without the marketing spiel

[vb]

For a person like me who's a non-tech or no hands on experience the visuals and simple explanation matters the most. Not the core details or a walk through the AWS console. I will always remember this kind of best videos. You know what the duration of the video < 5 minutes matters the most. And you made it!! Thank you!!

[jayp]

This video... is pretty cute. One thing about Lambda is how well it runs untrusted code. For example, if you provision an arbitrary lambda function to run with 128MB and 1 compute unit, with a timeout of 3 seconds, it is possible for the function to eat up resources beyond the limits, and is it possible to get charged if the function doesn't respond to a kill signal at 3 seconds?

For example, a malicious function might run an intense CPU task which might take long for AWS to kill. If AWS's kill signal is not implemented well, is the developer charged for the spillover in resource and compute time? What if the untrusted function writes megabytes of data to the system.out, and you have logging enabled? Are there easy ways to mitigate these types of attacks? Will the developer be forced to parse out any system.out statements in untrusted code?

As a developer, if I set a timeout for 3 seconds, there's no way I would want to pay for 20 minutes if the function stopped responding. This is one potential concern for using Lambda. It would be nice if AWS addressed these concerns.

[adokshajbhandarkar]

Very nice video.

Simplicity much appreciated.

[DeepakSingh-gitf]

Is Serverless computing only for purposes like these micro services? Or, is there an option like hosting an entire web application in serverless environment, so that it auto scales depending on traffic?

[kaelisprime]

can lambda have a HEV suit and kills combines

[antwanwimberly]

We’re a big time AWS client here @ Chase Bank

[John-]

I'm taken by this. I read a book with similar content, and I was completely taken by it. "Mastering AWS: A Software Engineers Guide" by Nathan Vale

[brianfoody]

Love this video! Do you mind me asking what software you used to produce it?

[a.s.]

- how this differs from old php-like hostings, heroku, etc?
- can I setup lambda on my server\OpenStack?

[geoa]

I don't get this: with or without lambda, the service needs a code itself . So what is the difference with server or with lambda ? still needs the code anyway ...

[venkatk]

Very Nice Video. Good and Easy Explanation.

[Mike-rtvp]

doesn't firebase already do this basically?

[StarsTogether]

Admiring this breakdown? Dive deeper with the suggested read. "AWS Unleashed: Mastering Amazon Web Services for Software Engineers" by Harrison Quill

[jaykudjo]

Soo good for neuro divergents to understand.

[MagnusAnand]

What’s the difference between AWS and the traditional web hosting for a simile web?

[goldilockszone]

You need to know Node.js, python or Java for compiling into lambda

[maxi-g]

the voice of this narrator absolutely drives me insane... COMPLETELY INSANE - i don't know what to do

[年の上に石]

It’s easy to create a lambda function with cloud9!