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On the 1st of December, 2020, as the world was preparing for the end of a turbulent year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic among other things, AWS presented the cloud community with an early present. Container support for AWS Lambda functions. The ability to package and deploy Lambda functions as container images, hence allowing you to run your Lambda functions with the benefits that containers provide.

Serverless functions allowed the industry to get up and running with business code in an instant. The novel compute service provided the ability to break away from the complexity of setting up complex infrastructure and configurations, along with the scalability and related operations of running in production.

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