Staff hear “serverless” and assume there are literally no servers anywhere. What is the accurate fundamentals explanation?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
“Serverless” is a marketing shortcut, not a physics claim. The servers are still humming in the provider’s datacenters—you just do not patch, size, or babysit them. Think “someone else’s servers,” not “magic with zero computers.”
Full Explanation
Serverless abstracts server management away from the customer. Compute still runs on physical and virtual infrastructure operated by the cloud provider. The customer deploys code or containers at a higher abstraction and is not responsible for OS patching and capacity planning for those servers. Correcting the “no servers exist” misconception is a common AZ-900 teaching point.