AWS Lambda Review
October 30, 2019
AWS Lambda Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AWS Lambda
Monitoring Usecase:
In the organization, we have got a need to increase the monitoring and availability of the systems, because of which we have created several scripts that run on a server for every 15 mins to extract data from one system and store it in a database. It was working fine when we have a few scripts and less number of CRON jobs. We have a complex environment, we interact with multiple systems most of the time and there are several logs that are captured in different systems, so our number of scripts increased, eventually jobs increased to run. We started to see a bottleneck on the server, so we started to think Cloud alternative and analyzed about the usage of AWS Lambda functions.
In the organization, we have got a need to increase the monitoring and availability of the systems, because of which we have created several scripts that run on a server for every 15 mins to extract data from one system and store it in a database. It was working fine when we have a few scripts and less number of CRON jobs. We have a complex environment, we interact with multiple systems most of the time and there are several logs that are captured in different systems, so our number of scripts increased, eventually jobs increased to run. We started to see a bottleneck on the server, so we started to think Cloud alternative and analyzed about the usage of AWS Lambda functions.
- Lambda functions are best in our use case because they are serverless and you could schedule AWS Cloud watch events to run periodically.
- Less expensive.
- Fast execution.
- Learning curve, it was a little bit challenging to start with, especially NodeJS runtime functions.
- Easy alerting mechanism upon failed invocations.
- Troubleshooting errors. We can write logs inside the function, however, if we have the ability inside the Lambda function where you raise a type of error, it can create an alert automatically, it would be great.
Do you think AWS Lambda delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with AWS Lambda's feature set?
Yes
Did AWS Lambda live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of AWS Lambda go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy AWS Lambda again?
Yes