Amazon fully understand the reality of the compute spectrum, but they are also completely focused on making it easier and easier to begin new development projects on Lambda for a wide variety of scenarios. This makes perfect sense, as we noted previously Serverless is volume compute for a new generation of applications, with significant upside for the providers in usage of adjacent services, and also an efficient disruptor of established processes.
Additionally, by expanding the various entry points to the Serverless paradigm for developers, via routes such as AWS DeepLens, AWS Greengrass and so forth, Amazon are focusing minds on the end product required rather than solving for the underlying operational complexity.
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