Portal | Level: L2: Operations | Topics: Serverless Computing | Domain: Cloud
Serverless Computing¶
Level: L2 | Domain: cloud
Serverless platforms (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run, Azure Functions) abstract away server management entirely, letting you deploy code that scales automatically and bills per invocation. They excel at event-driven, bursty workloads that benefit from scale-to-zero.
Choosing serverless involves evaluating cold-start latency, execution duration limits, VPC connectivity requirements, and cost at sustained load versus container-based alternatives.