Virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing

Now that we have a better understanding of the monolithic and microservice architectures, let's look at the Amazon Web Service (AWS) building blocks for creating serverless microservices.

But first we'll cover virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing, which are the basic building blocks behind any application or service hosted in the public cloud.

Virtual machines are the original offering in the public cloud and web hosting sites, containers are lightweight standalone images, and serverless computing is when the cloud provider fully manages the resources. You will understand the benefits and drawbacks of each approach and we will end on a detailed comparison of all three.