Which statement describes a serverless application?

This describes a traditional load-balancing setup for server farms, not a serverless architecture where the underlying servers are abstracted away.

Serverless applications, often referred to as Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS), are designed to be ephemeral, meaning they are provisioned and de-provisioned rapidly based on demand. They are event-triggered, executing only when a specific event occurs, and typically stateless, where any necessary state is managed externally. The underlying infrastructure (servers, containers, scaling) is fully managed by the cloud provider, relieving developers of operational overhead.

Applications running on network equipment are typically network services or control plane functions, not what is commonly understood as a serverless application.

While serverless functions can conceptually run in containers, the key distinction of serverless is that the *management* of these containers and the underlying infrastructure is handled entirely by the cloud provider, making it fully managed and abstracted.