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It would be nice if a lambda could respond to web requests. Maybe an Elastic Loud Balancer could be an "event-source".
Incidentally I almost had a heart attack when I saw the Lambda announcement. :P
[1]: We also provide the ability to respond to other kinds of events as does Lambda.
Is it me or AWS is releasing too many services... there is a service for everything. I wounder if they are just throwing stuff out there see what sticks... kinda like landing pages.
To be fair, unlike google they are not cancelling any services. I think Amazon first builds these services for internal use, and then releases them to the public.
Is it me or AWS is releasing too many services... there is a service for everything. I wounder if they are just throwing stuff out there see what sticks... kinda like landing pages.
To be fair, unlike google they are not cancelling any services. I think Amazon first builds these services for internal use, and then releases them to the public.
With Lambda, the resource consuming the queue is managed for me - that is huge. Also, the pay by time model is perfect for this - instead of managing when to stop/start resource intensive instances, I don't even have to think about the problem. I only get charged what I used, which can be crucial during growth stages of a business or prototype.
The big penalty is the vendor lock-in, but this tips the scales for me for certain things.
I’ve had a chance to use the service for a couple of weeks. My quick summary review is that it’s a little tricky setting up the IAM roles and security groups, but once you have that going, it works great! I see a ton of potential here in transforming the way people use AWS. I also put together the Netflix use cases in the keynote so if you have any questions I’ll try to answer them!
Is it me or AWS is releasing too many services... there is a service for everything. I wounder if they are just throwing stuff out there see what sticks... kinda like landing pages.
To be fair, unlike google they are not cancelling any services. I think Amazon first builds these services for internal use, and then releases them to the public.
Right now the only language/runtime supported is js/node, but they intend to include others. (figured people would want to know this, and you have to scroll a ways to find out, so)
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Do you know if you can respond to events from SWS or SQS?
As of today, no. Probably coming in the future though. I got the impression that eventually all Aws services will emit events.
All these announcement are making me feel sorry for all the other players in the cloud game. The other guys don't even come close.
I feel sorry for all the people in 5 - 10 years who discover Amazonis now in a position to charge monopoly rents.
Oh, and FWIW, when has AWS raised a price? My servers have gotten cheaper every year I've had them with AWS (3).