In this chapter, we have learned the concepts of how triggers work for AWS Lambda and how to select triggers depending on the problem statement and time intervals, in case of cron job triggers. We understood what Lambda functions are, along with understanding their functionalities and settings related to memory, VPCs, security, and fault tolerance. We also learned about the way container reuse is done under the hood specifically for AWS Lambda. Then, we covered event-driven functions and how they are implemented under the hood, the concept of containers, and their uses and applications in the domain of software engineering in general. Most importantly, from the concepts we learned regarding containers, we can now appreciate the options for choosing containers for running the Lambda functions.
After that, we talked about all the configuration settings available in the AWS...