Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 18 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) AWS Lambda and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).

AWS recently introduced runtime management controls which provide more visibility and control when Lambda applies runtime updates to functions. With runtime management controls, developers now ...

Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, “function-as-a-service” platforms such as Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions ...

AWS Lambda functions execute on demand when invoked by an application, allowing for highly variable self-managing workloads beyond what cloud-hosted virtual machine (VM) lifecycle management rules ...

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.