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AWS Lambda Pricing: Low, But Unpredictable

ParkMyCloud

Today’s entry into our exploration of public cloud prices focuses on AWS Lambda pricing. A recent survey showed that companies saved an average of 4 developer workdays per month by adopting serverless, and 21% of companies reported cost reduction as a main benefit. But why aren’t 100% of companies reporting cost savings?

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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Lambda Layers & Runtime API: More Modular, Flexible Functions

Stacks on Stacks

Lambda layers and runtime API are two new feature of AWS Lambda which open up fun possibilities for customizing the Lambda runtime and enable decreased duplication of code across Lambda functions. Layers is aimed at a common pain point teams hit as the number of Lambdas in their application grows.

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5 Questions to Ask Before Going Serverless

Modus Create

For example, one of our clients wanted a new reporting function in its monolith ruby-based application. Since it was an isolated feature, we created a separate Lambda function for it on AWS. So, while you no longer have to worry about OS vulnerabilities, it’s still possible to set up less secure apps in AWS Lambda.

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Knative vs. AWS Lambda vs. Microsoft Azure Functions vs. Google Cloud. The serverless craze is in full swing, and shows no signs of stopping—since December 2017 alone, the technology has grown 22% , and Gartner reports that by 2020, more than 20% of global enterprises will be deploying serverless. Service mesh. Distributed tracing.

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Free Cloud Courses at Linux Academy — July 2019

Linux Academy

Principal Systems Engineer from Symantec Corporation and Ell Marquez for a Threat Report Rundown. Linux Academy Study Group July 2019: Symantec Threat Report Rundown. Towards the end of the course, the student will experience using CloudFormation with other technologies like Docker, Jenkins, and Lambda. Google Cloud Concepts.

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Serverless Secrets: The Three Things Teams Get Wrong

Stacks on Stacks

Database passwords, account passwords, API keys, private keys, other confidential data… A modern cloud application with multiple microservices is filled with confidential data that needs to be separated and managed. That’s why (just to be clear) you should never pass secrets in environment variables to Lambda functions.