Cloud

Serverless

Terms

6 terms

  • AWS Lambda

    AWS Lambda is the Amazon Web Services serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and bills only for actual execution time.

  • Azure Functions

    Azure Functions is Microsoft's serverless compute service that runs event-triggered code with bindings, automatic scaling and several hosting plans.

  • Cold start

    A cold start is the extra delay a serverless function incurs when the platform must create and initialize a new execution environment before handling a request.

  • Function as a service

    Function as a service is a serverless cloud model that runs small event-triggered functions and bills only for the time and memory each call consumes.

  • Google Cloud Run

    Google Cloud Run is a serverless platform that runs stateless containers on demand, scaling them automatically with traffic and down to zero when idle.

  • Serverless computing

    Serverless computing is a cloud execution model in which the provider runs, scales and bills code per request, so teams never manage servers or idle capacity.