Laravel on AWS Lambda with Bref: Serverless Tutorial 2026

Posted By on October 4, 2026

Laravel on AWS Lambda with Bref: this serverless tutorial shows PHP and Laravel developers how AWS Lambda works, how to deploy Laravel without managing servers, and when Lambda is (and isn’t) the right choice.

Want to run Laravel without managing servers? In this video, you’ll learn AWS Lambda for PHP in plain English, from your first Bref function to a Laravel app running on Lambda.

✅ WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
• What serverless and AWS Lambda actually are
• How to run PHP on Lambda with Bref
• Deploying Laravel to Lambda, step by step
• Using S3, SQS, RDS and the Laravel scheduler on Lambda
• Bref vs Laravel Vapor
• Cold starts and how to reduce them
• Costs, limits and when NOT to use Lambda

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This video is for beginners, intermediate developers, experienced PHP programmers, job seekers, and anyone preparing for backend and cloud interviews.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00: 00 Why Lambda matters for Laravel devs
00: 00 What is serverless?
00: 00 How AWS Lambda works
00: 00 Lambda vs traditional PHP hosting
00: 00 Pricing and free tier
00: 00 Running PHP on Lambda with Bref
00: 00 Your first PHP function (deploy and invoke)
00: 00 Laravel on Lambda (setup and serverless.yml)
00: 00 Storage, database, sessions and cache
00: 00 Queues with SQS and the scheduler
00: 00 Laravel Vapor vs Bref
00: 00 Cold starts and performance
00: 00 Secrets, monitoring and debugging
00: 00 Pitfalls and when not to use Lambda

🔗 LINKS
Bref docs: https://bref.sh
Laravel Vapor: https://vapor.laravel.com
AWS Lambda docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda

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