AWS Lambda is the serverless computing component of the AWS catalog, enabling developers to execute arbitrary code on demand, without the need to provision or manage a “full” server, or a ...

Various serverless computing services are available via the major cloud platforms but the most mature is AWS Lambda. There are plenty of guides to getting started with setting up a Lambda instance.

Glue and several other new AWS offerings are intended to round out the cloud giant’s data-architecture offering, Vogels said.

Prices for cloud services drop-in fits and starts, but as the competition heats up, AWS has been more willing to borrow a strategy from its retail parent by cutting prices to maintain growth.

For Verizon, the win with the AWS partnership is more enterprise 5G clients. AWS gets a network partner for edge computing services.