AWS ALB Fronting Lambda

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Did you know it was possible to call a lambda function from an ALB and not just an API Gateway?

This was announced last year in November but was one of the things that slipped by me. I recently stumbled across a really nice blog post around the cost savings that can be found by using the ALB instead. Also this post was last year also.

Some days keeping up with everything is a little tricky 🙂

The AWS Announcement Blog Post is here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/lambda-functions-as-targets-for-application-load-balancers/

The cost savings blog was written by @jthomerson over on serverless-training.com:

https://serverless-training.com/articles/save-money-by-replacing-api-gateway-with-application-load-balancer/

This is definitely something to be mindful of when architecting a serverless solution.