WHAT ARE THE CAPABILITIES OF THE AWS SERVERLESS PLATFORM ?

AWS SERVERLESS PLATFORM

 AWS server less compute services allow to build and deploy applications on AWS

cloud without having to manage the servers. AWS server less platform enables
vendors to deploy cloud solutions without server provisioning, deploying,
maintaining and monitoring applications, databases or storage servers. It contains
features like customized configuration, easy maintenance, strong security, scalability,
high availability, monitoring etc.

WHAT IS SERVERLESS PLATFORM?

 Server less does not mean to execute application without servers. It is a model

followed by cloud providers, where provider manages machine and resources on their
own infrastructure, and provides services via dynamic allocation of machines and
resources to build and run applications and services, which is known as “BaaS”
(Business as a service) or “FaaS” (Function as a service) where code is executed in
ephemeral Containers. Pricing is based on resources consumed during execution of
task.
CAPABILITIES OF THE AWS SERVERLESS PLATFORM

 Cloud Logic Layer

AWS Lambda can act as logic layer for all containerized and microservices applications
 Orchestration Management
Coordinate and manage the state of each distributed component of serverless application
using AWS Step functions
 Application Lifecycle Management
Continuously deliver your serverless applications using lifecycle management tools such
as AWS CodePipeline
 Security and Access Control
Secure entire environment and AWS Resources with AWS IAM (
Identity and Access Management) and Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
 Reliability and Performance
AWS provides highly available, scalable and secure services at lower cost
 Global Scale and Reach
AWS offers a broad set of global products. Mostly all serverless services are available in
multiple AWS Regions
AWS Server less Services
 SERVERLESS APPLICATION USE CASES

Web Applications
Build Server less web applications that automatically scale up and down and run in
highly available configuration across multiple available AWS Regions with zero
infrastructure effort required for scalability using Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway,
AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB.
SERVERLESS APPLICATION USE CASES

Real-time File Processing

 After uploading the data in Amazon S3, S3 is able to trigger AWS Lambda to

process the data instantaneously. AWS Lambda can be used to generate thumbnail
images, transcode videos, index files, process logs, validate content, aggregate
and filter data in real-time.
SERVERLESS APPLICATION USE
CASES

Real-Time Stream Processing

It is possible to process the real-time streaming data in AWS through AWS Kinesis and AWS
Lambda. Streaming data sources could be application activity tracking, data cleansing, log
filtering, indexing, social media analysis, transaction under processing and IoT device data
telemetry and metering.
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Mobile Backends
 Build backend to authenticate and process API requests

through AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.

 BENEFITS

 Reduced Cost – Serverless computing pricing model is pay-as-you-go. It costs for

resources one consumes and nothing when application doesn’t run. Also, AWS take care of
infrastructure maintenance and updates so developers can spend more time on software
development.
 Elastic scalability — A serverless architecture in AWS has the potential to scale up and
down according to application workload.
 Reduced responsibilities for developers and faster releases — Developers don’t need to
worry about resource distribution, scaling, application deployment and workload intensity.
AWS handles these issues for serverless architecture. Developers should only compile
their code, zip it, and upload it to the new serverless platform to deploy new functions.
 Multi-language support — AWS serverless platforms support multiple programming
languages like Node, Java, Python, C#, Ruby, Go etc., so developers can choose the most
convenient option for themselves.
 Built-in logging and monitoring mechanisms — AWS has developed its own solutions
for user logging and monitoring. In addition, it also offers automated security assessment
that improves compliance of application deployed on AWS
 CHALLENGES

 Cold start — Key benefit of serverless computing is dynamic allocation of resources, due
to which vendors don’t need pay for idle time. However, sometimes this may results in
invocation latency.
 Resource limits — Serverless computing imposes limits on resources memory, execution
time, bandwidth, and CPU usage, e.g. the maximum execution time per request is 900
seconds (or 15 minutes) for AWS Lambda.
 Inadequate application testing — Serverless infrastructure enables to test small functions
of an application independently but it may be challenging to test the infrastructure and the
combination of all functions.
 Increased security concerns — There are limited options for identifying problems and
bottlenecks if any malicious code or attack occurs on lambda functions. Developers also
have no full access over the AWS servers.
 Access to the file system level — A serverless architecture isn’t the best choice for
software that requires access to the file system or operating system level. These types of
applications need to do things such as read attributes from configuration files or split in-
memory cache to disk, but serverless functions don’t allow this.Serverless functions are
stateless so whenever applications require state, serverless functions are not a good fit.