AWS Lambda Part 1 - Create Account | Add Users | Installing AWS Cli & AWS Sam CLI & More

# Introduction to AWS Lambda

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## What is AWS Lambda?
1. AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.
1. AWS Lambda executes your code only when needed and scales automatically.

## Create AWS Free Tier Account
* Go to https://aws.amazon.com/free
* Create Free Account
* Personal Or Professional
* Enter Payment info
* Confirm your identity
* Select a Support Plan - there is a free option

* Sign into the AWS Console
* Make sure you are in the correct Region
* Pin Services

## IAM
* Identity and Access Management
* Users
* Groups

## Language
* Examples
* Node.js, Python & More


## Limitations
* Uncompressed file size
* Less that 250 MB
* Compressed package
* Less than 50 MB
* total package in region
* less than 75 GB
* must run in less than 900 seconds

## Writing Code
* In AWS Editor

## AWS cli
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2.html

## SAM
#### The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an open-source framework that you can use to build serverless applications and run locally.
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-sam-cli-install-linux.html
* configure IAM account
* install Docker
* install AWS SAM