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Observability for Serverless Applications on AWS

To summarize the chapters so far, in Chapter 3, Gathering Operational Data and Alerting Using Amazon CloudWatch, Chapter 4, Implementing Distributed Tracing Using AWS X-Ray, and Chapter 5, Insights into Operational Data with CloudWatch, we focused on observing applications running on EC2 using CloudWatch. In Chapter 6, Observability for Containerized Applications on AWS, we delved into observability for applications running on containers. In this chapter, we will explore the observability of serverless applications running on AWS, specifically for those running on AWS Lambda.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced AWS Lambda in 2015 as a solution for developers to create software without the overhead ...

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