Serverless computing's poster child software is Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Lambda. It only has one little problem: You can use it on AWS. If you're wedded to AWS, that's not a problem, but if you want ...

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Amazon’s simple, scalable compute service runs your functions whenever needed, but is limited to Java, Python, and Node.js What if you could simply define a function to live in the cloud and handle ...

DynamoDB is a NoSQL document store that is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). DynamoDB defines data abstractions as tables, which accept common database operations such as insert, retrieve, query, ...

A major AWS outage disrupted global websites, apps, and services. The issue stemmed from a DNS failure in AWS's US-East-1 region. In the latest update, Amazon said the AWS outage was resolved. Amazon ...

Most companies today develop applications and deploy them on servers — whether on-premises or in the cloud. That means figuring out how much server, storage and database power they need ahead of time, ...

Amazon Web Services announced a new service today called Lambda, a stateless event-driven compute service for dynamic applications that doesn’t require provisioning of any compute infrastructure. As ...