Serverless is a mode of computing in which developers write business logic functions and then a Cloud provider executes those functions. Servers are still involved, of course—just not your servers. For the developer and operator, how the functions are executed—that is, which infrastructure it uses—is all hidden and, in fact, irrelevant.

This development gives companies a powerful new way to reduce IT operational costs, deploy services faster and be more responsive to customer demand.

Here are some of the business advantages you can get from serverless computing:

• Reduce costs. Because you’re only paying for what you use, the drop in infrastructure costs can be significant.
• Auto-scale on demand. Need more infrastructure support? Need less? With serverless, you can get just the infrastructure support you need.
• Decrease time to market. It generally takes far less time to develop serverless applications. You don’t have to worry about setting up servers, configuring environments, clustering or other facets of building a traditional system.
• Create more transparent, business-event-driven execution. Code is executed only in response to a well-defined business event. That increases overall transparency and reliability of the application to handle very specific business events or anomalies.
• Reduce security risks. Instead of focusing on perimeter security and access control, security shifts to the orchestration of application code, enabling a complete monitoring of activities, connections and user behaviors.

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Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP) plays an important role in helping our clients get the most from their Cloud presence. ACP provides the visibility and control enabled through its serverless architecture to discover resources in customers’ accounts. The goal is to make it easy to manage our clients’ cloud estate with governance tools, advanced cost analytics capabilities and dashboards.