AWS Lambda: Serverless Compute

Serverless is a shift in how you think about compute: instead of provisioning and running servers, you just deploy code. AWS Lambda is the service that pioneered it, and it is the third compute option in the AWS model — alongside EC2 and Fargate. What serverless means A new paradigm — developers don’t manage servers, they just deploy code (functions). It started as FaaS (Function as a Service), pioneered by AWS Lambda....

May 17, 2026 · 5 min · Daman Arora