What is serverless computing?

The official literature of Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the de facto serverless providers, defines serverless computing as follows:

Serverless Computing allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers. Serverless applications don't require you to provision, scale, and manage any servers. You can build them for nearly any type of application or backend service, and everything required to run and scale your application with high availability is handled for you. It's worth exploring the implications of this definition as our first step into the serverless world. ....build and run applications and services without thinking about servers.

Producing software involves much ...

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