# Is AWS lambda a container?

Is AWS lambda a container?

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- Posted at: over 3 years ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code.

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### Comment 2

To use serverless computing for containers Lambda is not the right choice use AWS Fargate.

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- Posted at: over 2 years ago
- Author title: Software Engineer at HCL Technologies



### Comment 3

yes

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- Posted at: about 3 years ago
- Author title: Software Developing Engineer I at Amazon Development Center




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