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[0:00]Hello, my name is Paul and I'm a software engineer here at AWS in the serverless team. Today I want to talk to you about AWS Lambda and how you can run your functions for an extended period of time by using the new maximum duration for Lambda functions, which is 15 minutes. So let's start with what is AWS Lambda. It's an event-driven serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. Lambda functions can be used for various use cases, such as web applications, mobile backends, processing streaming data, and you can also use them for chatbots and IoT backends. Since its launch in 2014, Lambda supported a maximum duration of 5 minutes. But a lot of you have told us that you want to use Lambda for longer running tasks, such as processing large files, performing machine learning inferences, or doing financial analysis. And that's why we've now increased the maximum duration for Lambda functions to 15 minutes. So now you can use Lambda for even more workloads and you don't have to break down your applications into smaller chunks. Let's dive into a demo and see how you can set the maximum duration for your Lambda functions. Here, I've already created a Lambda function and I've provided some code in Node.js. This function takes an image, resizes it, and uploads it back to S3. By default, the timeout is set to 3 seconds, but that's not enough for our use case. So let's go ahead and change it. Under the basic settings, you can now change the timeout to a maximum of 15 minutes. And once you've set it to 15 minutes, you can hit Save. And that's it. Now your Lambda function can run for up to 15 minutes. We've also provided APIs so you can update the maximum duration for your Lambda functions using the AWS CLI or the SDKs. Here's an example on how you can update your function configuration and set the timeout to 900 seconds using the AWS CLI. In summary, you can now run your Lambda functions for up to 15 minutes, allowing you to use Lambda for even more workloads, such as processing large data sets or running machine learning inferences. We're really excited about this new feature, and we can't wait to see what you'll build with it. To learn more about AWS Lambda, please visit our website and thanks for watching.