THE VIDEO SHELF · aws lambda internals
AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood (SRV409-R1)
An AWS re:Invent 2018 session in which Holly Mesrobian and Marc Brooker explain how AWS Lambda is built, including its sandboxing, isolation and scaling architecture. It covers what happens under the hood when serverless code runs.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as the authoritative description of Lambda internals and isolation, by the engineers who built it.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Amazon Web Services
- Topic
- aws lambda internals
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2019
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I believe AWS does share customer information within a device, but with a lot of sandboxing below that. You can watch this talk to learn more: [VIDEO] I think the threat model is basically that you'd need a KVM kernel 0-day + the ability to …
staticassertion on Hacker News · 2019-01
In Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8Here are a couple videos from reInvent 2018: Jaso talking about DynamoDB internals [LINK] Marc talking about Lambda internals [VIDEO]
appwiz on Hacker News · 2019-06
In Learning to Build Distributed Systems
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