Ready to develop your first AWS Lambda function in Python? It really couldn’t be easier. The AWS Management Console’s built-in code editor first loads with a pre-existing, fully functional snippet of ...

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The original pitch for cloud computing is the ability to scale computing power to the needs and growth of your organization–without provisioning the physical hardware in advance, or dealing with ...

A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event ...

Now, with SnapStart, AWS is addressing this by creating snapshots of a customer’s Lambda functions and then simply starting those up without having to go through the usual initialization process.