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Case Study: Use of AWS Lambda for Building a Serverless Chat Application

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Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Science and Applications

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Cloud computing in recent times has unfolded as the most popular and efficient standard for managing and delivering useful services over the Internet. Out of various cloud services and techniques, serverless computing represents an evolution of cloud-based programming technologies and is an attestation to the growth and large-scale adoption of cloud concepts. In this era of increasing technological advancements, large Internet companies like Amazon, Netflix and LinkedIn deploy big multistage applications in the cloud which can be developed, tested, deployed, scaled, operated and upgraded independently. However, aside from gaining agility and scalability, infrastructure costs are a major hindrance for companies following this pattern due to the increasing server loads and the need to increase server space. This is where serverless computing and services like AWS Lambda comes into picture. The paper delves into the functioning of AWS Lambda along with other existing AWS services through the development of a serverless chat application which supports scalability without the addition of new servers. The paper further explores the connection of different existing services in AWS like S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, etc. with serverless technologies like Lambda.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India

    Brijesh Choudhary, Chinmay Pophale, Aditya Gutte, Ankit Dani & S. S. Sonawani

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Correspondence to Brijesh Choudhary .

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  1. University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan

    Subhash Bhalla

  2. Hong Kong College of Engineering, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

    Peter Kwan

  3. School of Computer Engineering and Technology, MIT World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Mangesh Bedekar

  4. School of Computer Engineering and Technology, MIT World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Rashmi Phalnikar

  5. School of Computer Engineering and Technology, MIT World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Sumedha Sirsikar

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Choudhary, B., Pophale, C., Gutte, A., Dani, A., Sonawani, S.S. (2020). Case Study: Use of AWS Lambda for Building a Serverless Chat Application. In: Bhalla, S., Kwan, P., Bedekar, M., Phalnikar, R., Sirsikar, S. (eds) Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Science and Applications. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0790-8_24

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