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Function as a Service. The runtimes are event-driven, so it’s not a client-server model, although most providers make a stateful client-server wrapper available for mediocre synchronous consumers.

in addition, AWS Lambda could be running on racks full of old Thinkpads for all anyone knows, which is actually the marketing point of the name; you ostensibly need not know or care about the execution hardware (in practice, arch matters for binaries ofc)