Prior to Lambda, there were three ways of running code in AWS - Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. EC2 is a full-fledged IaaS while ECS is the hosted container environment.

Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, underway this week in Las Vegas, the first version of this new feature is aimed at Java developers—thus the name, Lambda SnapStart for Java. Because Java is a dynamic ...

Having services like S3, Lambda and SQS available locally sounds super interesting." In addition to S3, Lambda and SQS, developers using LocalStack on their local machines can also spin up core cloud ...

To build your first Java AWS Lambda function, just create a simple class with an instance method that performs the following functions: Takes a String as an argument. Returns a String. Writes to the ...

Now, with SnapStart, AWS is addressing this by creating snapshots of a customer’s Lambda functions and then simply starting those up without having to go through the usual initialization process.