Serverless Computing for Society 5.0

The advancement and increasing availability of novel technologies are widely recognized as crucial in building both a more resilient society and a sustainable economy. These technology factors are paving the way to a Society 5.0, where all domains, spanning from economic to technical areas, are encouraged to collaborate in the creation of a more dynamic, reliable, and valuable novel ecosystem. However, the enormous fragmentation in standards and protocols, even worsened by the geographical dispersion of these sources, hinders the integration of typically heterogeneous information data and applications produced by different partners. To solve this problem, new cloud computing models have emerged by proposing abstract interfaces and rapid prototyping of services, to specifically address the intrinsic dynamicity of these environments. In this work, we propose leveraging and evolving serverless cloud computing as support for Society 5.0 service integrations by providing a fast development environment that hides most of the complexities of infrastructure management.