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Serverless Architecture Basics

Build on managed functions

Serverless architectures use managed functions and services to handle events, scale automatically, and bill per execution, reducing ops overhead while needing attention to cold starts, limits, and observability.

When to Use

Spiky/event-driven workloads and small services.

Design

Stateless functions, external state, and idempotent handlers.

Operate

Monitor cold starts, limits, and costs; secure with IAM.

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