Amazon explains its secret weapon in the cloud wars
November 11, 2015
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Editorial Staff.
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 describes as "a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you."
That sounds like a lot of buzzwords, but developers and customers like Major League Baseball and Twitter’s Periscope love Lambda because of how it makes running apps simpler. So far, none of Amazon’s competitors has come up with anything similar. "As a technologist, there’s almost always a ‘gotcha,’" says Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services’ general manager of product strategy. "Lambda kind of is as magical as it appears."…
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