AWS Lambda helps you automate and reduce your cloud costs
April 22, 2020

AWS Lambda helps you automate and reduce your cloud costs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Lambda

We use AWS Lambda to help us automate the process of start/stop EC2 instances in AWS. We use it in infrasctructure but it affects the whole organization and most of our internal servers and customer servers are in AWS. With this automation, we cut our cost by 35% which is a very significant amount for a small company.
  • Flexible. You can use it with many programming languages.
  • Easy. It's all configurable and as soon as you understand how it works it becomes very easy to maintain.
  • The integration with other AWS tools helps a lot the automation of tasks.
  • In the beginning, I think the documentation is not very informative so you have to look at user examples online.
  • As I said it helped us reduce cloud costs from 35%
  • Since it's easier to maintain the learning curve was not high
  • 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.
The support in terms of AWS documentation is vast but its difficult to understand in a first glimpse. I needed examples so I have to look outside AWS like youtube and internet articles.

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

The main area in my point of view is the automation reduction of costs. You can program and use Lambda to execute several tasks based in several types of events like logs, schedules, and output from other AWS tools. With the AWS API, you can do almost anything you want and your function will use only the needed resource (memory, cpu) so it is optimized.