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Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Lambda
I would definitely recommend using Lambda for short-running, event-triggered processes that are dedicated to a single function. This could be for one-off processing or intermediate tasks between other resources like objects stored in buckets and queues for processing those objects. Also, since Lambda executions can be scheduled, processes that need to happen on regular intervals can be implemented with Lambda as well.I would not recommend using Lambda for anything that needs to run longer than a few seconds. Long running processes like ETL jobs or intensive computations may be better suited for step functions, batch jobs, or even a server based approach.
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees
IBM Cloud Foundry
Well Suited:- Development of information architecture/library. It enables better classification/taxonomy, leading to more intuitive findability.- Dialog design and content retrieval for virtual agents. (e.g. a virtual agent whose content offerings are not hard-coded into the response fields, but instead require crawling/drawing from other pages/libraries)Not Well Suited:- Annotation/labeling/clustering of information that will be retrieved using a different search/query service.
Solution Analyst — Machine Assisted Service Enagagement
AutodeskComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Platform-as-a-Service
AWS Lambda
8.4
IBM Cloud Foundry
7.9
Ease of building user interfaces
AWS Lambda
8.3
IBM Cloud Foundry
7.8
Scalability
AWS Lambda
9.3
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.0
Platform management overhead
AWS Lambda
8.4
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.2
Workflow engine capability
AWS Lambda
8.4
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.2
Platform access control
AWS Lambda
9.1
IBM Cloud Foundry
10.0
Services-enabled integration
AWS Lambda
9.1
IBM Cloud Foundry
7.5
Development environment creation
AWS Lambda
7.9
IBM Cloud Foundry
9.0
Development environment replication
AWS Lambda
7.7
IBM Cloud Foundry
7.0
Issue monitoring and notification
AWS Lambda
8.1
IBM Cloud Foundry
5.0
Issue recovery
AWS Lambda
8.1
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
AWS Lambda
8.4
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.8
Pros
AWS Lambda
- AWS Lambda is a welcoming platform, supporting several languages, including Java, Go, PowerShell, Node.js, C#, Python, and Ruby. And if you need to deploy a Lambda function in another language, AWS offers a Runtime API for integration.
- We really appreciate how AWS Lambda is always-on for our functions, with only a brief "cold-start" waiting period the first time a function is called after being dormant.
- In addition to only generating costs when it's actually being used, AWS Lambda really puts the "serverless" in serverless architecture, offering turnkey scaleability and high availability for our code with zero effort on our part.
Technical Project Manager
California State University, NorthridgeEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
IBM Cloud Foundry
- Keeps things more standardized, ring fenced and thus easier for the end user to use
- Open source, allowing for a wide group for education, auto and support
- Developing at pace to keep up with the ever changing needs of the industry from on / off premise, public and private

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
AWS Lambda
- The UI and Developer experience is not so great. IF you use an abstraction like Serverless Application Model (SAM), things get pretty easy, but it's still AWS UI/DX you're working with after that (which is to say, not their strength).
- Documentation is always a mixed bag. Sometimes it's just easier to google your specific problem and see how others have solved it. This can be much faster than trying to find an example that may or may not be there in the documentation (which oftentimes has multiple versions and revisions).

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Fund-Raising Company, 1-10 employeesIBM Cloud Foundry
- Sometimes the API Connect GUIs don't cleanly disengage after attaching models or updating schema and it is hard to know what has been written successfully and which (if any) models or tables were missed. I shouldn't have to manually check through a list of 377 models to find the ones in and out of a list on either models, folder or database tables. Printing a summary even in logs which did a "diff" sort of thing between 'task-set' and 'task-completed' (referring to attaching models or updating schema as tasks here as 'tasks').
- Provide access to Postgres Database in Sydney datacentre for Australia.
- Clearer documentation around setting up a secure (referring to SSL and certificate setup here) server on eg, chubby1.au-sydney.mybluemix.net.
- Allow a ramp in pricing onto the Blockchains. We will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even if we launch successfully.
Director
IT Cloud Solutions AustraliaInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Usability
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda 8.5
Based on 9 answers
It is very easy to get started with AWS Lambda and create your first function. The user interface makes it easy to add AWS services to be inputs or outputs to the function, meaning it can be configured in many different ways for different needs. This makes it ideal for various scenarios in AWS.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesIBM Cloud Foundry
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Support Rating
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda 8.1
Based on 18 answers
Support is great and is rarely needed. Once you get a service running, it usually is error-free unless there's a change in the way you are integrating with it. We have had services run for several years without being maintained. The stability of the platform is staggering as long as you follow platforms.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employeesIBM Cloud Foundry
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Alternatives Considered
AWS Lambda
Azure Functions is another product that provides lambda functionality, but the documentation for some of Azure's products is quite hard to read. Additionally, AWS Lambda was one of the first cloud computing products on a large cloud service that implemented lambda functions, so they have had the most time to develop the product, increase the quality of service, and extend functionality to more languages. Amazon, by far, has the best service for Lambda that I know.
Co-Founder/CEO
aspace, Inc.Computer Software, 1-10 employees
IBM Cloud Foundry
I like when the provider offers cloud deployment via standard orchestration mechanisms (like Docker, Kubernetes, DCOS) This is currently well covered by Azure. Amazon also has good flexibility (supports Kubernetes, DCOS). It's good that Bluemix added support for Docker and Kubernetes, but addition of DCOS would be great to complete the offering.
CTO
DataCompass LLCMaritime, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
AWS Lambda
- I was able to perform a lot of processing on data delivered from my website and little or no cost. This was a big plus to me.
- Programming AWS Lambda is quite easy once you understand the time limits to the functions.
- AWS Lambda has really good integration with the AWS S3 storage system. This a very good method of delivering data to be processed and a good place to pick it up after processing.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Research Company, 1001-5000 employeesIBM Cloud Foundry
- Bluemix has allowed me to effectively serve the App industry more recently, especially with the new visual design implemented recently.
- BlueMix offers a lot more customization of the Platform, rather than Infrastructure, giving me a big edge over other companies offering only AWS or Azure cloud services, and brings a lot more apparent value to my business.
- The additional features, especially the Watson service subset offers a HUGE range of new and innovative technologies, especially in the realm of AI, that encourages my clients to test out new potential features, which leads to more sales as they increase there platform size and capability.
Sr. Solutions Architect
FreeTheHustle.ComInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
AWS Lambda
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
AWS Lambda Editions & Modules
Edition
128 MB | $0.00000000211 |
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1024 MB | $0.00000001671 |
10240 MB | $0.00000016671 |
- Per 1 ms
Additional Pricing Details
—IBM Cloud Foundry
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
IBM Cloud Foundry Editions & Modules
Edition
Community Runtimes | $0.071 |
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- Per GBH