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William Lopez
William Lopez

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AWS Lambda

How does AWS Lambda work? What is it best used for?

Thanks for the help!

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Dennis Zimmerman

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows developers to run code on demand.

How this works is that it eliminates their need to manage servers since it automatically scales resources in response to events.

Users would upload code and set triggers (like API requests or database updates) then Lambda executes it as required.

Because of this, I'll say that Lambda is ideal for microservices, real-time data processing, and event-driven applications.

Hope this helps!

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