2023-07-07: Deploying Serverless Containers via AWS
Introduction Cloud computing has been increasing in popularity for some time now and continuously evolving. One recent trend in cloud computing is the use of serverless technologies. As a matter of fact, serverless made the Forbe's top 5 cloud computing trends in 2022 . When many think of serverless technologies, they think of functions like AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions . However, serverless containers like Google Cloud Run and Azure Container Apps have become available over the past few years and are growing in usage. They allow developers to containerize applications with the desired flexibility and scalability while avoiding a lot of the hassles of infrastructure provisioning, patching, and complicated configurations that might be encountered with technologies like Kubernetes. In this blog, I will describe how to deploy a simple Python application using two serverless container options provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS): AWS Ela...