In recent years, cloud-native applications have become the go-to standard for many businesses to build scalable applications. Among the many advancements in cloud technologies, serverless architectures stand out as a transformative approach. Ease-of-use and efficiency are the two most desirable properties for modern application development, and serverless architectures offer these. This has made serverless the game changer for both the cloud providers and the consumers.

For companies that are looking to build applications with this approach, major cloud providers offer several serverless solutions. In this article, we will explore the features, benefits, and challenges of this architecture, along with use cases. In this article, I used AWS as an example to explore the concepts, but the same concepts are applicable across all major cloud providers.