Containers and serverless computing on AWS
Containers and serverless computing are technologies that enable you to build applications and ease the management overhead of infrastructure. There are similarities in the nature of workloads that both containers and serverless can support:
- Stateless workloads
- The ability to abstract away the underlying host environment from applications
- Dynamically scaling workloads
- Simplifying the overhead and heavy lifting of managing virtual machines
There are also some striking differences. In this section, we will discuss some of the aspects that you will need to analyze before choosing one option:
Containers |
Serverless |
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Deployment Options |
Support Linux and Windows |
Specific hosting platforms that are compatible with other cloud providers’ equivalents to AWS Lambda... |