Serverless comes to machine learning with container image support in AWS Lambda.

AWS Lambda was released back in 2014, becoming a game-changing technology. By adopting Lambda, many developers have found a new way to build micro-services that could be easily achieved. It comes with many additional advantages such as event-based programming, cloud-native deployment, and the development of the now well-known infrastructure-as-code paradigm. A paradigm-shifting technology like AWS Lambda had to define its own standards to support all the modern app development lifecycle requirements. To make things easy to develop, Lambda decided to offer the easiest way of code project management: the zip file format.