Ready to develop your first AWS Lambda function in Python? It really couldn’t be easier. The AWS Management Console’s built-in code editor first loads with a pre-existing, fully functional snippet of ...

AWS has introduced the general availability of Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions, a feature designed to improve the startup performance of serverless applications significantly ...

If laziness really is one of the virtues of a great programmer, then AWS Lambda is like ... another Java stack or Python program. You’ll really be writing just one function that responds to ...

As support for Node.js v4.3 remains, developers choosing the runtime for their new Lambda functions now have the options of: C#, Edge Node.js 4.3, Java 8, Node.js 4.3, Node.js 6.10 and Python 2.7.

This functions as a somewhat abstract combination of Docker-style containers and serverless computing services like AWS Lambda. There’s also an open-source alternative to Lambda: Apache OpenWhisk .

Now, with SnapStart, AWS is addressing this by creating snapshots of a customer’s Lambda functions and then simply starting those up without having to go through the usual initialization process.

AWS IoT 1-Click extends this capability to any developers, so long as it is on a supported device. To use the new feature, you need to enter your existing account information.