Cloud functions and serverless architecture
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We received a long avaited release this week. Node.js 12 is officially available on AWS Lambda. Also on Zeit Serverless Functions.

With increasing business complexity also the computing infrastructure becomes more and more complex. Manually creating, updating and maintaining such infrastructures becomes harder and from some point almost impossible. Also in modern datacenters and cloud computing environments no-one knows which exact piece of hardware is responsible for which customer or service. Therefore cloud providers and data centers needed a way to offer infrastructure management tools for their customers - GUIs, APIs and tools.

Short step by step guide for what to do after creating a new AWS account.

Cloud functions let us run code without having to manage servers - hence the name serverless functions. Cloud functions usually extend and connect other cloud services with each other - such as databases and data streams. For many workloads they are the most cost-effective solutions due to their "pay only for what you consume" pricing model.