Boston AWS User Group - Serverless

Building serverless applications with container-based Lambda functions

At AWS re:Invent 2020, AWS Lambda released Container Image Support for Lambda functions. This new feature allows developers to package and deploy Lambda functions as container images using existing container tooling. With this release, AWS SAM and the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) also added support to manage, build, and deploy Lambda functions using container images. In this session, I discuss managing container images for Lambda functions and how it changes developer workflow and dependency management. I also demonstrate building serverless applications with container-based Lambda functions using both AWS SAM and AWS CDK. At the end of the session, you will have an understanding of how container-based Lambda functions work and how to manage them as infrastructure as code with AWS SAM or AWS CDK.

Container image support for AWS Labda - Docs

Optimizing Lambda functions packaged as container images

Download and install the Amazon ECR credentials helper

Runtime support for AWS Labda (Runtime Interface Client and Runtime Interface Emulator)

Lambda runtime images (See verified AWS Serverless account)

Presented by:

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson is a Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless Applications at Amazon Web Services and is based in Northern Colorado. Eric is a fanatic about serverless and enjoys helping developers understand how serverless technologies introduces a major paradigm shift in how they approach building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. Prior to this, Eric has worked as a developer, solutions architect and AWS Evangelist for an AWS partner company.

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