Go Serverless with zero start-up cost and wide feature set!
May 02, 2024

Go Serverless with zero start-up cost and wide feature set!

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

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Lambda

We use AWS Lambda for a number of use-cases, such as an API endpoint behind AWS Cloudfront and also for data collection and evaluation before sending statistics on to our other internal systems. We have also used AWS Lambda to process messages on an SQS queue to allow a full serverless implementation of our microservices.

Pros

  • No need to manage infrastructure
  • Billed purely based on actual usage
  • Reduced security risks due to architecture

Cons

  • Creating test events can be clumbersome
  • Failures can be hard to diagnose
  • Requires monitoring for failures
  • Allows fast development
  • Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by only paying for actual usage
  • No need for ITOps to monitor hundreds of server availability!
We use AWS as our primary cloud provider due to the overall availability of services, AWS Lambda is just one of the services we use with AWS which allows a more seamless integration for our microservices. AWS Lambda gives us much more flexibility and can be invoked by more services than other cloud providers we have found.

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

SUSE Rancher, Docker, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
AWS Lambda is well suited for serverless microservices and can run independently of other services. AWS Lambda functions can be triggered by a number of external services, such as API calls, cron schedules, Cloudwatch event rules or via AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) triggers. The service works well for API services however might be less suited to website hosting of systems like Wordpress.

AWS Lambda Feature Ratings

Function as a Service (FaaS)
7.3
Programming Language Diversity
7
Runtime API Authoring
8
Function/Database Integration
7
DevOps Stack Integration
7
Access Control and Security
8.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Reporting & Analytics
5.0
Dashboards
6
Standard reports
6
Custom reports
3

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