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Migrating to a serverless architecture

Migrating to a serverless architecture - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to Serverless Web App Development on AWS

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Migrating to a serverless architecture

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- [Instructor] Now that you have built from scratch a couple of web apps using serverless, you might be thinking, "Will serverless help my existing applications? Why should I migrate them to this architecture? What options do I have when it comes to migrating? How I can get started?" Let's talk about that now. In traditional architectures, wherever, they're on premise or in the cloud, they require significant management. You need to provision, monitor, and scale serverless manually or with auto-scaling rules. This can lead to inefficiencies, especially as your applications grow and experience traffic spikes. Serverless removes much of this operational overhead. With serverless architectures, you focus on your code, and the cloud providers handle the infrastructure. But why is this beneficial? Well, here are the key reasons why companies migrate to serverless. First, cost efficiency. You pay only for what you use. In traditional models, you are charged for idle resources, but…

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