Reasonable serverless compute option
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2022
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9.3
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8.9
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8.7
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8.6
86%
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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 Types | SaaS |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 run and scale code with high availability.
What is AWS Lambda's best feature?
Reviewers rate Scalability highest, with a score of 9.3.
Who uses AWS Lambda?
The most common users of AWS Lambda are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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May 06, 2022
Reasonable serverless compute option
AWS Lamba is for a shorter period of time whereas Google App Engine is for a longer period and runs a complex code with multiple language support and integration. Google App Engine is costly as compared to AWS Lamba
January 06, 2022
AWS Lambda: a perfectly reasonable serverless compute option
We also use Google Cloud Functions because we use GCP in addition to AWS. AWS Lambda is comparable to Google Cloud Functions in its functionality. The main advantage of going with one or the other has to do with what resources it will interact with--we use AWS Lambda to interact with AWS resources and Google Cloud Functions to interact with GCP resources.
May 04, 2021
AWS Lambda saves time and money for your project
AWS is great product and a close match our expectations. It is close to Azure in function but more feature rich with API and support documents. From my experience, it is cheaper compared with our competitors and provides better interface. Overall our dev engineers prefer AWS Lambda over Azure stack for Web projects.
April 29, 2021
AWS Lambda is the king of serverless compute services!
I've worked previously with Azure Functions which seems to be the direct competitor to AWS Lambda and while Azure Functions worked just fine there seemed to be more configuration and "magic" behind the scenes to it compared to AWS Lambda which is very straight forward. I distinctly remember thinking multiple times that I had wished that we had chosen to use AWS Lambda over Azure Functions at that time.
April 25, 2021
Lambda: An Efficient way for developers
- AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Identity & Access Management, AWS Lambda, AWS Key Management Service, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Apache Kafka, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Route 53, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon Web Services
When we use Lambda, we do not need to worry about the infrastructure and costs. AWS can handle it all on its own. For an optimum use case, one can always use AWS Lambda along with API Gateway and Route 53 for the best use case. Cloudwatch can help you identify any issues and help in monitoring the Lambda's. Lambda is cheap and best and has all you need if you are doing simple processing. If you need to do any heavy data processing, then EMR is preferred.
March 26, 2021
AWS Lambda, the one point solution to run your tasks.
We used Windows built-in task scheduler app to develop tasks which generate xml file and save to file.
For future reference, we need to store those files at some safe locations to find easily in future.
in AWS Lambda, we don't need to worry about files and code, it saves to server safely.
For future reference, we need to store those files at some safe locations to find easily in future.
in AWS Lambda, we don't need to worry about files and code, it saves to server safely.
I have used Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions. In comparison, AWS Lambda is a bit more difficult to configure out of the gate. But in most cases once the function is in place and running the operation becomes completely hands-off. While I've used Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions, my team selected Lambda because the rest of our resources already run in AWS. Keeping the functions in the same account as the other resources (like S3 buckets and API Gateways) simplifies access management and deployments.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Route 53 and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Each service has its purpose. With EC2 you can provision servers for customers and internal projects. With EBs you can optimize what you need in performance with what you can afford. With AWS Lambda you can integrate several of these tools to work together or acomplish personalized goals.
February 07, 2020
AWS Lambda rocks
All our stacks are in AWS currently, we are planning to go multi-cloud soon.
November 16, 2019
AWS Lambda for Education
I've used Google Cloud Functions to create apps for Google Home devices. My students find this more difficult to use than AWS Lambda, especially when it comes to setting permissions.
September 25, 2019
Serverless data communication
AWS Lambda is the comparison tool to App Engine. I selected Lambda because the entire stack is basically on Amazon Web Services.
August 23, 2019
Any language, fast and simple
We really did not evaluate them against other products except a little Google research, we are a centralized AWS customer so it was a smooth and simple (even if blind) decision for us.
August 23, 2019
AWS Lambda for DBA maintenance
August 20, 2019
AWS Lambda, a best in class serverless workload
AWS is a much more mature platform than Microsoft Azure but is a lot more rigid in the portability perspective. If you are in it for the long run then Lambda is great and the best choice.
August 17, 2019
Most popular for a reason
Since our company heavily relies on AWS already, my team did not consider any other serverless platforms when building our applications. Lambda was chosen by "default", but it's also such a popular platform that we felt we couldn't go wrong.
August 16, 2019
AWS Lambda - The Unseen, Low-Cost Workhorse of the Cloud
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Amazon API Gateway
These are all AWS sister products, so I wouldn't say they are competitors but tools in the same box. They all work quite well together and I would say combined they are greater than the sum of their parts. Cloudformation (and SAM) templates make tying them together pretty painless and easy to deploy and entire environment. Gone are the days of needing to wire up everything individually.
August 13, 2019
AWS Lambda Review
AWS Lambda is good for short running functions, and ideally in response to events within AWS. Google App Engine is a more robust environment which can have complex code running for long periods of time, and across more than one instance of hardware. Google App Engine allows for both front-end and back-end infrastructure, while AWS Lambda is only for small back-end functions
August 12, 2019
AWS Lambda - Cloud functions with infinite scalability
But other similar things I've used are Azure Functions and GCP Google Cloud Functions. Like all services like this, the support is pretty much the same. AWS Lambda supports enough popular languages, and behaves pretty much the same as all of these similar services. It does it's job, it's simple and it does it well.
It was the first time I tried anything of this sort. I loved it completely.
July 12, 2019
AWS Lambda can be game changer
I have not tried any other products comparing with AWS Lambda.
July 07, 2019
Excellent Serverless provided by AWS
We considered using application deploy in EC2 with Auto Scale but ended up with AWS Lambda as it helps us to simplify our development and deployment process. It allows us to quickly create instances in a short time for processing data when the source application uploads data into S3.
June 13, 2019
Using AWS Lambda for Data ETL
While AWS Lambda doesn't have the UI or the predefined functions that these other services provide, what was apparent to us is the cost saving and flexibility we have with AWS Lambda once we have it set up.
In terms of Azure functions and Google cloud functions, the advantages of AWS Lambda against these two competitors are several. In terms of price, Lambda has a lower cost per execution of function and time. In addition to that, AWS has a greater number of services available, and the environment is easier to configure and automate. Cloudwatch offers one of the greatest advantages for all the information it offers on each execution of each function.
April 24, 2019
Something best for startup project
- Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Amazon CloudWatch
Work fast with DynamoDB, SNS, SQS and other AWS services.
April 12, 2019
Best Cloud Platform
This is one of the best products from AWS right now. It is easy to set up and get started tool. APIs and documentation are well done. Debugging is a lot easier with high scalability for product growth.