In an interview with Matt Wood, Chief product strategist at Amazon Web Services, one thing that stuck out was how big of an emphasis he placed on AWS Lambda. Many people probably don’t know what ...

Apps in the cloud each have their own requirements and sometimes need a different view of data in a dataset. For example, an ecommerce database might include personally identifiable information that ...

Fresh from unveiling a series of developer tools yesterday, Amazon Web Services today is previewing Amazon Lambda, a new way to build applications and run them in the cloud by leveraging lambda ...

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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, ...

One of Amazon Web Services' most potent weapons in the cloud-computing wars with Microsoft and Google is also one of its least understood. About a year ago, Amazon introduced Lambda, which it ...

At its AWS re:Invent cloud computing conference today, Amazon announced AWS Lambda, a way of performing computing in the cloud in response to events without the need for virtual machines, compute ...

In what may be the strangest retrocomputing project we’ve seen lately, you can now access a virtual 6502 via Amazon’s Lambda computing service. We don’t mean there’s a web page with a simulated CPU on ...

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 the ...