The change to a serverless mindset brings with it a renewed focus on automation and agility as key factors. Practically any task you might want to do in the AWS ecosystem can be automated, making administration and operations easier than before. With the serverless services themselves, there are fewer components in our scope of responsibility, which further reduces our operational burden. We should definitely put these new serverless components to good use when developing solutions—whether legacy or cloud-native.

In this chapter, we are going to explore some uses for serverless technologies in enabling automation. We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Continuous compliance
• Resource tagging
• Running scheduled tasks