Ryan Brown I build tools to make deployments smoother, infrastructure cheaper, and feedback loops faster. AWS Lambda is a service (released 04/09/2015) that consumes events from Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, SNS, and more. You can use it to make advanced materialized views out of DynamoDB tables, react to uploaded images, or archive old content. In short, you write a function (currently only in node.js)