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Hands-on lab: AWS Lambda basics

Hands-on lab: AWS Lambda basics - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Hands-on lab: AWS Lambda basics

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, I will walk you through the process of creating and running a Lambda function. We'll also see synchronous and asynchronous invocations in action using the AWS CLI. Let's begin by navigating to the Lambda console. Enter Lambda in the search bar, then click Lambda, and this will take us to the AWS Lambda console. Now that we're in the Lambda console, let's go ahead and click Create Function. Here we get to select an option to create a Lambda function. The author from scratch option means that we have to write functions from the ground up ourselves. We can also use a blueprint. Blueprints are basically prebuilt Lambda functions that provide sample code that demonstrates how to utilize AWS Lambda together with other AWS services. As you can see, there's a wide selection of blueprints available for you to use and explore. Next is the container image, and what this allows you to do is it lets you deploy Docker images as Lambda functions. You may also launch a…

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