Recently Amazon announced that AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). With the support for EFS, they can share data across function ...

Prior to Lambda, there were three ways of running code in AWS - Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. EC2 is a full-fledged IaaS while ECS is the hosted container environment.

For example, when an end user of an application uploads a new image for persistent storage on Amazon, Lambda can ensure that the metadata gets thrown into a database that can be queried later.

“ We're excited to start using Elastic's AWS Lambda APM agent for our cloud-native applications,” said Jose Navarro, Software Engineer, Accolade, a healthcare company.

Amazon Web Services created an "AWS Compute Services" team, an email viewed by Insider shows. It combined services such as EC2 and serverless products like Lambda into a single organization.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. unveiled the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) with Docker support on Thursday.

For example, we have been a significant contributor to Apache Lucene, which powers Amazon Elasticsearch Service." That's not how others see it.