01. Functions as a Service (FaaS)

What is AWS Lambda?

From the documentation:

AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.

• AWS Lambda executes your code only when needed and scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second.
• You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running.

You can use AWS Lambda to run your code in response to events, such as HTTP requests.

SQS Queue

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a secure, durable, and available hosted queue that lets you integrate and decouple distributed software systems and components.

• A queue is just a type of list that orders data in a particular way; typically in a first-item-in = first-item-out order (FIFO), as shown below.

Learn more about SQS in the documentation.

MXNet and Lambda

• Learn more about deploying models using MXNet and AWS Lambda in this AWS blog post, where they link to a repository of example code!