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Discussion on: Explain Serverless Like I'm Five

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Imagine you want to build an API backend for your web or mobile app. Normally, you'd write an API layer, then add a DB layer, then add logging, then auth middlewares, then you'd write your business logic, then deploy it, then figure out how to update it and maintain it.

With serverless, you only write your business logic and upload it to AWS. They provide you with their logging, data layer, api, auth, hosting and anything else you need. For a price.