Glossary term
What is Serverless?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Serverless" means: A way to run code or store data where AWS looks after the servers for you and you pay for what you use. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. Related terms include Spot Instance, Container, Savings Plan and Amazon S3 bucket.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Serverless?
A way to run code or store data where AWS looks after the servers for you and you pay for what you use.
Where is Serverless taught?
Serverless is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
Which lessons cover Serverless?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 4.3: Serverless and containers: code without server chores
Which terms are related to Serverless?
Next to Serverless in the course glossaries: Spot Instance, Container, Savings Plan, Amazon S3 bucket, AMI, Storage class, EC2 instance and Block, file and object storage.
Spot InstanceContainerSavings PlanAmazon S3 bucketAMIStorage classEC2 instanceBlock, file and object storage
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Serverless?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.