#compute

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda lets you run code without managing servers. You upload a function, define what triggers it (an HTTP request, a file upload, a schedule), and AWS handles everything else — provisioning, scaling, patching, and shutting down when idle. You only pay for the milliseconds your code actually runs. If you’ve been through the EC2 Basics tutorial, you know that EC2 gives you full virtual machines. Lambda is the opposite end of the spectrum: no servers to manage at all. Read more →

May 18, 2026

EC2 Basics

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is AWS’s core compute service. It lets you run virtual servers — called instances — in the cloud. Instead of buying and maintaining physical hardware, you can launch a server in minutes, use it for as long as you need, and shut it down when you’re done. If you’ve been through the AWS Getting Started guide, you already have an AWS account. In this tutorial, we’ll launch an EC2 instance, connect to it via SSH, run a simple web server, and then clean everything up so you don’t get charged. Read more →

April 3, 2026