{"id":180525,"date":"2024-03-20T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/?p=180525"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:39:47","slug":"aws-serverless-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/aws-serverless-everything-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"AWS Serverless: Everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>AWS (Amazon Web Services) has developed a range of Serverless services that allow developers to create scalable, highly available applications without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure. In this article, we&#8217;ll explore AWS Serverless in detail and understand why this approach is gaining in popularity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-is-serverless-architecture\">What is Serverless architecture?<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Before going into more detail about<strong> Amazon&#8217;s proposals for this type of service,<\/strong> it is essential to define and understand what exactly this term means.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/aws-lambda-explained-unveiling-the-power-of-serverless-functions-on-amazon-web-services\">Serverless architecture<\/a> is an application development model in which developers can concentrate on writing their code and business logic without having to worry about managing the underlying servers and infrastructure. In this type of environment, cloud service providers, such as Amazon AWS, dynamically manage the resources needed to run and scale applications.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7441ce17 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-left-color:#ff5c43;border-left-width:4px;border-radius:12px;background-color:#fff5f2;margin-top:32px;margin-bottom:32px;padding-top:24px;padding-right:28px;padding-bottom:24px;padding-left:28px\">\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:clamp(14.642px, 0.915rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.575), 22px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Related articles<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-left:20px\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/aws-elastic-load-balancer-the-solution-that-distributes-network-traffic\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AWS Elastic Load Balancer: The solution that distributes network traffic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/jam-aws-the-playful-learning-platform-from-amazon\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jam AWS: The playful Amazon learning platform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/aws-lambda-introduction-to-the-serverless-function\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AWS Lambda: Introduction to the Serverless Function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/aws-certification-what-is-it-and-how-do-i-get-it\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AWS Certification: What is it and how do I get it? <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/aws-sagemaker-a-guide-for-using-the-platform\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AWS SageMaker: A guide for using the platform<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"benefits-of-a-serverless-infrastructure\">Benefits of a Serverless infrastructure<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Serverless architectures offer considerable advantages:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table>\n<colgroup>\n<col\/>\n<col\/>\n<col\/>\n<\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><img alt=\"Illustration for Benefits of a Serverless infrastructure\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image13-2.png\" width=\"60\"\/><\/th>\n<th>Management cost<\/th>\n<th>You only have to pay for the resources used, resulting in significant savings.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for Benefits of a Serverless infrastructure\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image14-2.png\" width=\"60\"\/><\/td>\n<td>Scaling<\/td>\n<td>Applications automatically scale to meet changing demands. No scaling infrastructure management required.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for Benefits of a Serverless infrastructure\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image11-2.png\" width=\"60\"\/><\/td>\n<td>Speed<\/td>\n<td>Applications can be developed and published very quickly, thereby meeting obvious business challenges.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for Benefits of a Serverless infrastructure\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image8-2.png\" width=\"60\"\/><\/td>\n<td>High availability<\/td>\n<td>This architecture is designed to be highly available: applications can be accessed at any time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for Benefits of a Serverless infrastructure\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image4-2.png\" width=\"60\"\/><\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Pay-per-use &#8220;model<\/td>\n<td>You are charged only for the number of requests or events, making it easy to track usage costs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex is-content-justification-center wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-5ee10de4\" style=\"margin-top:32px;margin-bottom:32px\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/en\/courses\/data-ai\/data-analyst\">Mastering Amazon AWS services<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-main-serverless-services-on-amazon-aws\">The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>As we mentioned in the introduction, <strong>AWS offers a whole range of Serverless services.<\/strong> Here are the main ones:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table>\n<colgroup>\n<col\/>\n<col\/>\n<col\/>\n<\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><img alt=\"Illustration for The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1999\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image7.png\" width=\"1651\"\/><\/th>\n<th>AWS Lambda<\/th>\n<th><p>It allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. One of the major benefits of AWS Lambda is that you only pay for the compute time you consume.<\/p><p>With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service. Lambda automatically takes care of all the required operational activities to ensure your code runs smoothly and with high availability.<\/p><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1999\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image5-2.png\" width=\"1652\"\/><\/td>\n<td>AWS API Gateway<\/td>\n<td>With this Serverless service, you get several essential features for managing your APIs. It provides a powerful management platform and enables you to handle several thousand simultaneous API requests, manage traffic, permissions, monitoring, and versioning of your APIs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1999\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image10-2.png\" width=\"1774\"\/><\/td>\n<td>DynamoDB<\/td>\n<td>This service offers a highly responsive and flexible NoSQL database, designed to meet the needs of any applications requiring latency in the order of milliseconds, regardless of scale. Fully managed, it has built-in security, backup and restore, as well as caching for large-scale applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1436\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image9-2.png\" width=\"1200\"\/><\/td>\n<td>Amazon S3<\/td>\n<td><p>It is a storage service that offers leading scalability, availability, security, and performance.<\/p><p>With its scalability, S3 can adapt to changing storage needs of customers. It also enables high availability, ensuring that stored data is always accessible when needed.<\/p><p>Amazon S3 is also designed to provide very low latency and response times, allowing users and applications to access stored data very quickly.<\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image3-3.png\" width=\"249\"\/><\/td>\n<td>Amazon Kinesis<\/td>\n<td>Kinesis is a data streaming platform that offers powerful data loading and analysis engines, allowing you to also build your own streaming applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image2-3.png\" width=\"60\"\/><\/td>\n<td>AWS Fargate<\/td>\n<td>Fargate is a serverless compute engine specifically designed for containers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image1-3.png\" width=\"60\"\/><\/td>\n<td>Amazon SNS<\/td>\n<td><p>It is a highly available, secure, and fully managed messaging service that allows you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.<\/p><p>SNS provides topics for high-throughput, push-based messaging. Your publisher systems can broadcast your messages to a large number of endpoints for parallel processing.<\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img alt=\"Illustration for The main Serverless services on Amazon AWS\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1999\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/liora.io\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image12-2.png\" width=\"1657\"\/><\/td>\n<td>Amazon SQS<\/td>\n<td><p>SQS is a fully managed message queue system that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.<\/p><p>With SQS, you&#8217;ll be able to send, store, and receive messages between different software components.<\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"conclusion\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Serverless architecture has revolutionised the way modern applications are developed and deployed. Thanks to the various<strong> Amazon AWS services,<\/strong> developers can create scalable, highly available applications.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>AWS<\/strong> offers a powerful ecosystem, enabling developers to do away with all the management of the underlying infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex is-content-justification-center wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-5ee10de4\" style=\"margin-top:32px;margin-bottom:32px\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/en\/courses\/cloud-dev\/aws-solutions-architect\">Start an AWS training course<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWS (Amazon Web Services) has developed a range of Serverless services that allow developers to create scalable, highly available applications without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure. 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