To test the remote invoke feature, a small AWS SAM application comprises two AWS Lambda functions. The TranslateFunction takes a text string and translates it to the target language using the AI ...

Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, “function-as-a-service” platforms such as Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions ...

Smart deployment of AWS Lambda for your application workflows can increase the performance of existing infrastructure in your organization as tasks are offloaded onto Lambda functions.

These hooks can trigger AWS Lambda functions to perform custom validation logic, such as synthetic testing, API calls, or metrics queries, to check application health, run integration tests, or ...

AWS Lambda fits that bill perfectly. It lets developers run code -- typically in response to events -- without provisioning or managing servers, paying only for compute time consumed. AWS has steadily ...

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.

AWS announced its Node.js upgrade in a post yesterday. "You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Node.js v6.10," it said. "You simply upload your Node code as a ZIP using the AWS CLI or ...