Tag Archives: Lambda functions

Building Microservices on AWS: Lambda vs ECS Fargate

By | October 6, 2025

Selecting the right compute model is one of the biggest architectural decisions teams face on AWS. This guide contrasts serverless functions powered by AWS Lambda with containerized services running on Amazon ECS with Fargate. You’ll find side-by-side diagrams, architecture variants (including API Gateway front doors), and a comprehensive comparison of cost, performance, security, scaling, and… Read More »

Introduction to IaC using SAM and CloudFormation

By | March 25, 2023

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is a framework for building serverless applications on AWS. SAM provides a simplified way of defining the Amazon API Gateway APIs, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon DynamoDB tables needed by your serverless application. SAM also provides a command-line interface (CLI) for deploying and managing your serverless application on AWS. In… Read More »