Case study on serverless
In this section, we will do an in-depth analysis of how serverless technologies can enable businesses to make the choice to shift their existing applications running on-premises or to the cloud. The customer names are imaginary, but the use cases are real. These case studies are being shared with you so you can use pieces of the case studies and apply them as needed in your organizations.
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda and other AWS cloud services such as API Gateway can be greatly beneficial for serverless computation. The following case study highlights one such usage pattern that is cost-efficient and requires less management.
Business case/challenge
A SaaS company where traffic peaks during Christmas gets an increased number of tickets where users are reporting 503 errors upon invoking certain public-facing APIs. These failures are impacting users on the biggest sales day of the year. Upon running several tests, the IT team finds out that their current...