Serverless computing allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers. Serverless applications don't require you to provision, scale, and manage any servers. Instead, everything required to run and scale the application with high availability is handled for you.
There is no need to provision or maintain any servers. Application lifecycle management tools like CodePipeline enable you continuously deliver your serverless applications.
Your application can be scaled automatically or by adjusting its capacity through toggling the units of consumption (e.g. throughput, memory) rather than units of individual servers.
Serverless applications have built-in availability and fault tolerance. You don't need to architect for these capabilities since the services running the application provide them by default.
You don't have to pay for idle capacity. There is no need to pre- or over-provision capacity for things like compute and storage. For example, there is no charge when your code is not running.
AWS offers a serverless platform that lets you build and run virtually any type of application or backend service at scale, without having to provision, manage, and scale servers. Companies that build serverless applications get faster time-to-market because the core infrastructure components, like compute and databases, are offered as fully managed services by AWS.
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.
Amazon DynamoDB is a fast NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.
Amazon Kinesis enables streaming data on AWS, offers powerful services to make it easy to load and analyze streaming data.
AWS managed services make it easy to decouple and scale microservices, and serverless applications.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, highly-scalable object storage.
AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create and secure APIs at any scale.
AWS provides tools and services that aid developers in the serverless application development process.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to securely control access to your AWS resources.
AWS provides you with highly available, scalable, and low-cost services that deliver performance for enterprises of any scale.
The AWS Global Infrastructure provides your applications and services with the ability to scale out globally in minutes.
AWS Lambda can be used as the control plane and logic layer for all of your interconnected infrastructure resources and web APIs.
AWS Step Functions enables you to coordinate and manage the state of the distributed components and microservices that make up your serverless application.
AWS lets you to choose from a broad set of data sources and providers to help process data and/or trigger events in real-time.
The AWS Serverless Application Model is an open source framework that can help you model and deploy your serverless applications. Application lifecycle management tools, such as AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild, enable you continuously deliver your serverless applications.
AWS and its partner ecosystem provide tools that aid developers in the serverless application development process, including continuous integration and delivery, testing, monitoring and diagnostics, SDKs, frameworks, and integrated development environment (IDE) plugins.