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What is Serverless? Definition and explanations

Serverless is a model where the cloud provider provisions, sizes and operates servers on your behalf: you deploy only code or configuration, billed on actual execution. The servers still exist — you simply no longer manage them. The appeal is zero operations and no cost at rest; the limits are cold starts and platform lock-in.

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Serverless runs your code with no servers to manage, billed on actual usage.

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