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AWS Lambda Serverless

April 5, 2026

Serverless Compute

Run code without provisioning/managing servers.

Lambda Architecture

Event Sources:
- API Gateway (HTTP)
- S3 events
- DynamoDB Streams
- CloudWatch Events
- SQS/Kinesis/Message Gateways

Execution:
15min timeout, 10GB memory
VPC support, X-Ray tracing
Provisioned Concurrency (low latency)
SnapStart (Java cold starts)

Pricing

1M requests free/month
$0.20/1M requests + $0.00001667/GB-sec
128MB-10GB memory configurable

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