Lambda@Edge benefits

The benefits of Lambda@Edge are as follows:

  • Lambda@Edge runs the function code at different AWS locations close to the end user to provide low latency with rich and more personalized contents.
  • Lambda@Edge scales the applications automatically by running code in response to each Amazon CloudFront event trigger. Your function code processes each trigger individually, runs in parallel, and scales precisely with the workload.
  • Lambda@Edge runs code automatically without provisioning or managing servers for different AWS locations. You will write the code, upload to AWS Lambda, and then the code will run close to the end user's locations.
  • Lambda@Edge charges you every 50 ms for executing the code, but this also depends on ...

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