Amazon Lambda
Run code without thinking about servers. Pay only for the compute time you consume.
Lambda Free Tier includes 1 Million free requests per month, up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month.
Amazon Web Services China Region • Always Free
Amazon Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other Amazon Web Services services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.
Benefits
NO SERVERS TO MANAGE
Amazon Lambda automatically runs your code without requiring you to provision or manage servers. Just write the code and upload it to Lambda.
CONTINUOUS SCALING
Amazon Lambda automatically scales your application by running code in response to each trigger. Your code runs in parallel and processes each trigger individually, scaling precisely with the size of the workload.
SUBSECOND METERING
With Amazon Lambda, you are charged for every 1ms your code executes and the number of times your code is triggered. You don't pay anything when your code isn't running.
Use cases
What can you build with Amazon Lambda? Learn more about the use cases below:
Data processing
You can use Amazon Lambda to execute code in response to triggers such as changes in data, shifts in system state, or actions by users. Lambda can be directly triggered by Amazon Web Services services such as S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SNS, and CloudWatch, can connect to existing EFS file systems, or it can be orchestrated into workflows by Amazon Step Functions. This allows you to build a variety of real-time serverless data processing systems.
Real-time file processing
You can use Amazon S3 to trigger Amazon Lambda to process data immediately after an upload. You can also connect to an existing Amazon EFS file system directly, which enables massively parallel shared access for large scale file processing. For example, you can use Lambda to thumbnail images, transcode videos, index files, process logs, validate content, and aggregate and filter data in real-time.
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Real-time stream processing
You can use Amazon Lambda and Amazon Kinesis to process real-time streaming data for application activity tracking, transaction order processing, click stream analysis, data cleansing, metrics generation, log filtering, indexing, social media analysis, and IoT device data telemetry and metering.
Reference Architecture: Sample code
Machine Learning
You can use Amazon Lambda to preprocess data before feeding it to your machine learning model. With Lambda access to EFS, you can also serve your model for prediction at scale without having to provision or manage any infrastructure.
Backends
You can build serverless backends using Amazon Lambda to handle web, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), and 3rd party API requests.
IoT backends
You can build backends using Amazon Lambda and Amazon Kinesis for Internet of Things (IoT) device data telemetry and analysis.
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Mobile backends
You can build backends using Amazon Lambda and Amazon API Gateway to authenticate and process API requests. Lambda makes it easy to create rich, personalized app experiences.
Reference Architecture: Sample code
Web applications
By combining Amazon Lambda with other Amazon Web Services services, developers can build powerful web applications that automatically scale up and down and run in a highly available configuration across multiple data centers – with zero administrative effort required for scalability, back-ups or multi-data center redundancy.
Reference Architecture: Sample code
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Intended Usage and Restrictions
Your use of this service is subject to the Amazon Web Services Customer Agreement.