Serverless Architecture

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FaaS plus managed services, event-driven. Applications built from functions triggered by events, with the cloud provider managing server infrastructure. Pay-per-invocation pricing, automatic scaling, but with cold start latency and vendor lock-in tradeoffs.

Key Properties

• Function as a Service
• Event Triggers
• Pay Per Use

Related

• Event-Driven Architecture (serverless is inherently event-driven)

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