AWS Lambda

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Additional costs

Using other AWS services or transferring data can incur additional charges, and VPC or VPC peering use with Lambda can also incur charges.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Compliance

AWS says Lambda is certified under SOC, HIPAA, PCI, ISO, and other compliance programs.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Compute options

Lambda offers Functions for event-driven code and MicroVMs for isolated code execution with state retention and lifecycle control.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Fault tolerance

Lambda runs on infrastructure across multiple Availability Zones, and durable functions provide built-in error handling, automatic retries, and recovery after failures.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Integrations

Lambda natively integrates with over 220 AWS services and 50 SaaS applications.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Monitoring

Lambda sends logs, metrics, and traces to services such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray, and supports third-party monitoring through Lambda extensions.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Performance

Provisioned concurrency keeps functions initialized and ready to respond, while SnapStart offers up to 10× faster startup for Java and startup improvements for Python and .NET.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Runtimes and deployment

Lambda supports Python, Node.js, Java, C#, Go, Ruby, and custom runtimes, with deployment using ZIP files or container images through the AWS Console, infrastructure as code, or CI/CD pipelines.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Scaling

Lambda automatically scales to incoming request rates and scales down to zero during idle periods; each function can scale up by 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds until it reaches the account concurrency limit.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Security isolation

Lambda runs functions on dedicated compute resources powered by the AWS Nitro System, and offers tenant isolation for request processing.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Usage limits

A Lambda function can allocate 128 MB to 10,240 MB of memory in 1 MB increments, and the free tier includes one million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

What it does

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and manages the underlying compute resources.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

Workload fit

AWS presents Lambda for event-driven applications, isolated code execution, AI agent orchestration and durable workflows, real-time data processing, and analytics or notebook environments.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026

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