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AWS Lambda

Overview

What is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform that lets users run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, users can run code for virtually any type of app or backend service—all with zero administration. It takes of requirements to…

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AWS Lambda for developers

9 out of 10
May 12, 2021
AWS Lambda serves various purpose accross teams
1. We mainly use AWS Lambda when we have very short time to productionise code and have …
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Pricing

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128 MB

$0.0000000021

Cloud
Per 1 ms

1024 MB

$0.0000000167

Cloud
Per 1 ms

10240 MB

$0.0000001667

Cloud
Per 1 ms

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform that lets developers run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, users can run code for virtually any type of app or backend service—all with zero administration. It takes care of requirements to run and scale code with high availability. Users pay only for the compute time they consume—there is no charge when their code is not running.

Developers uploading to Lambda don’t have to deal with their code’s environment. It’s a “serverless” service which lets outside code or events invoke functions. Lambda doesn’t store data, but it allows access to other services which do. Users can set up their code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.

AWS Lambda Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform that lets users run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, users can run code for virtually any type of app or backend service—all with zero administration. It takes of requirements to run and scale code with high availability.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of AWS Lambda are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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February 09, 2019

The Serverless Standard

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Research Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The engineering and data science teams at my organization use AWS Lambda to rapidly deliver features that are easy to maintain. We use Lambda with the Serverless framework, API Gateway, and DynamoDB to build managed micro-services that are easy to scale. We use Lambda with AWS Step Functions and S3 to build background jobs.
Pros and Cons
  • AWS Lambda is fully-managed. It is easy to build and manage functions and related resources with the Serverless framework.
  • AWS Lambda integrates well with other AWS products. It is easy to use S3, SNS or DynamoDB events to invoke functions.
  • For some use-cases, AWS Lambda is very inexpensive. Sub-second metering is great. Lambda is great for infrequently-used or bursty services.
  • Managing development, staging, and production environments with Lambda is an open question. Some organizations use separate AWS accounts for different environments, but that is not feasible for teams that use ephemeral, per-feature or per-team development environments.
  • AWS Lambda integrates well with other AWS products, and it is natural to build distributed systems from them. It can be difficult to test features that use Lambda functions end-to-end. LocalStack and moto can help.
  • Lambda functions have very limited access to disk space.
  • Container cold-starts can be problematic and difficult to foresee.
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Lambda is excellent for small organizations that want to focus on shipping features rather than maintaining infrastructure. Developers can iterate very rapidly using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and the Serverless framework. AWS Lambda is not appropriate for some load patterns; services with uniformly high loads will be expensive to run on Lambda.
AWS Lambda Feature Ratings
Function as a Service (FaaS)
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Access Control and Security
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • AWS Lambda has allowed our data science team to rapidly deliver RESTful APIs for machine learning features without engineering support
  • AWS Lambda and API Gateway allow our developers to rapidly develop background jobs and services without configuring and maintaining infrastructure, application servers, reverse proxies, etc.
  • Lambda integrates well with other AWS products; we don't have to implement as much "glue" code.
Other Software Used
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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