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# AWS Lambda Serverless Compute

The industry-standard, event-driven serverless computing platform optimized for massive microservice architectures.

## Record

- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://aws.amazon.com
- **Email**: aws-verification@amazon.com
- **Address**: 410 Terry Ave N, Seattle, Washington, 98109, United States
- **Coordinates**: 47.6225, -122.3362
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy AWS Lambda Serverless Compute Stack Layer](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/)

### Summary

The industry-standard, event-driven serverless computing platform optimized for massive microservice architectures.

### Description

AWS Lambda enables serverless execution of background code assets without provisioning or managing dedicated virtual machine instances. It scales compute resources fluidly per incoming event request thread with high-performance operational resilience.

### Expert insight

Configure provisioned concurrency thresholds on high-frequency lambda endpoints to completely eliminate cold-start runtime latencies for production user requests.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 1,000,000 Requests
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 1,000 Concurrency
- **Session Lifetime**: 0.25 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0 USD
- **MFA Support**: Enforced natively via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) root layers
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Supported completely via AWS IAM Identity Center directory configurations
- **Custom Domain Support**: Configured cleanly using Amazon API Gateway or CloudFront distributions
- **Supported SDKs**: Node.js, Python, Java, Go, .NET Core, Ruby, Custom Runtimes
- **Social Providers**: Not applicable; maps straight to infrastructure resource network controls
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA Eligible, PCI-DSS Compliant, FedRAMP High
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Dead Letter Queues (DLQ) routed directly to Amazon SQS or SNS targets for replay