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They actually did, many of the errors students have been experienced are with Amazon’s Lambda product.

They mean "Amazon should run" the exams, not "they should have built their exam submission infrastructure using AWS."

Lambda is part of Amazon's Cloud Computing subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is a utility like DigitalOcean or any hosting provider. It's not some kind of guaranteed success strategy.

This made me smile. AWS is now the new Microsoft in the sense that "nobody got fired for picking AWS" or like the gold plated cables at Big Box Store to the less informed. MoAr BeTtAR.

Amazon Lambda is basically like a part though. I mean contracting Amazon to build the system and operate it. Wasn't the Lambda error a resource limit one?

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