You can now run a standard Node.js web server on AWS Lambda with Lambda Web Functions, a new type of Lambda function. Deploy it with one command or AWS CloudFormation and get a public HTTPS endpoint with no adapter layer and no servers or load balancers to manage.
Lambda Web Functions suit server-side rendered web apps, REST and GraphQL APIs, streaming endpoints, and microservices. Building on the launch announcement, this post uses a sample application to show how one execution environment handles many requests at once and how the same app serves a global audience. See how active-CPU billing keeps the cost of waiting low while your code waits, with memory and requests billed separately.
Overview
Lambda launched in 2014 with a minimal model: upload your code, and the service handles everything else. For over a decade that code ran as an event handler, invoked once per event such as a batch of queue messages or an object landing in Amazon Simple Storage…