AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty 2021 - Hands-On! - Lambda Costs, Promises, and Anti-Patterns

The video tutorial explains AWS Lambda's pricing model, highlighting its free tier and cost-effectiveness. It covers Lambda's high availability, scalability, and performance guarantees, including automatic retries and caching. The tutorial discusses the 15-minute timeout limit and suggests using EC2 for longer processes. It addresses anti-patterns and workarounds, such as chaining functions for extended processing. The video also clarifies Lambda's role in dynamic websites and its stateless nature, recommending DynamoDB or S3 for state management.

Discuss the limitations of using AWS Lambda for building dynamic websites.

How can state be managed in AWS Lambda if it is inherently stateless?