AWS Lambda vs OpenShift

• 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.

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• Pre built cartridges, giving a huge range of software ready to go. Reduces the amount of time required to get up and running.
• Integration with GIT was an advantage, cloning the repo and making changes was straight forward.
• Speed, creating an environment in minutes, ready to deploy.

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• 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).

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• I would like to see a public cloud using OpenShift and Docker integration. I am not aware if this is already available now.
• I would like to see a tool that can help with extracting log files from the remote server like it being available on a Samba shared folder. And other applications that want to scan for keywords in the application log can check if there have been any errors or exceptions thrown by the application.

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• 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.

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• Cost - OpenShift is extremely inexpensive. I use a free account for Dev and QA. For production, I am planning on using a low cost paid subscription.
• Time - You can get your application up and running in minutes so if you find that the service is not for you, you don't have much to lose.

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