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Tranforming cloud from server to serverless
March 31, 2022

Tranforming cloud from server to serverless

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

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Lambda

I used AWS lambda in one of project which was developed by company I am currently in. My current company is AWS partner network accredited. While developing project, our company tries to make offer for AWS lambda as it is cost efficient compared to EC2 instance or any other compute service. Business problems are related to what clients want in a smaller budget. AWS lambda is considered as server-less compute service and helps to deliver solution much faster than any other computer service.
  • Image compression on the go
  • Supports multiple programming language which can trigger lambda using API
  • Event driven
  • Platform as service, don't need to configure underlying hardware or operating system
  • Can handle higher number of events triggering, easily scalable.
  • Cost efficient
  • Environment is something which we can't control. It can be disadvantage at some point of time.
  • Time limit for function to execute, 3 sec as default upto 15 minutes maximum. Need to a lot of time to making function more efficient to execute in given time frame.
  • If function code file is above 5mb, lambda's ide doesn't support editing on go. You need to upload another zip file with newly updated code. It's quite frustrating.
  • Faster implementation of features
  • Easily deployed and ready to serve at same moment
  • Saves a fortune, no need to over or under provision any service

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

Compressing image while uploading it to S3 bucket can be easily done using lambda. While if your workload require lot of execution time or there is large amount of data to be processed, also workload where tweaking environment to suit workload, lambda can be less appropriate. Instead other computer service like EC2 and elastic beanstalk can be well suited for such task.