It’s no secret that since I began my cloud journey in late 2018 i’ve been intrigued by serverless computing. At work i’ve even gone as far as designing and implementing a few Azure Functions that are used in production. I thought now would be the perfect time to write a blog post on a practical use case for AWS Lambda.

What is Lambda ?

Lambda is a function as a service offering from AWS that allows you to focus on writing code and letting AWS provision and maintain the underlying technology stack that your code runs on. As of this current moment in time Lambda supports runtime versions for Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, C# (.NET Core), and PowerShell (.NET Core).

Last week Friday was my last working day of the year, it’s been a year of continuous learning mostly on Azure and security. To take a break from Azure I thought it would be a great opportunity to try something out on AWS for a change of Public Cloud. I recently decided to take on the 100 days of cloud challenge.

https://www.100daysofcloud.com/

I’ve been coming across a plethora of ads for VPN’s when I’m on Youtube. Most of the solutions cost just over $ 10 per month. Light bulb moment… how much would it cost to host my own VPN server in the cloud ?

It’s been a while since I had time to enter an additional blog post, be that as it may I have finally made time for the sequel.

If you’ve been following my blog you might have noticed that I have changed the theme. Cyberpunk 2077 is nearing it’s release and what better way than to use a futuristic theme to ride the wave.

September was the month of Serverless, to build on that theme I decided it would be the perfect time to launch my own production-ready Serverless blog ahead of time and establish my online presence. I’ve had an interest in having my own blog for over a year, the idea of pulling off something that none of my friends have done before excited me, so now it was only a matter of time before the idea came into fruition.