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Application platforms provide runtime environments for application logic. They manage the life cycle of an application or application component, and ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, security and monitoring of application logic. They typically support distributed application deployments across multiple nodes. Some also support cloud-style operations (elasticity, multitenancy and self-service).

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AWS Lambda

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Engineer

this is a great thing which allow users to implement serverless solutions 

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Director of IT

Great to have infra sorted by aws, but lots of learning required to get it to work, plus more pricey than expected

SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER

AWS Lambda has been a key enabler for building scalable, event-driven services without the overhead of managing infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly into the wider AWS ecosystem, allowing us to move quickly, automate workflows, and focus on delivering value rather than maintaining servers. Reliability and scalability have been consistently strong.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

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Favorable Review

Highly scalable serverless platform that accelerates delivery, but requires strong governance at scale.

Critical Review

AWS Infrastructure Setup Simplifies Management But Presents Higher Costs and Challenges

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