Item: AWS Lambda
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use a lot of Lambda for all of our customized logic needs, we no longer deploy anything on EC2. It scales and costs beautifully, but it does require a different way of not only deploying, but also thinking about your software. It's limitations are its strengths if used a appropriately.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Scale
Performance
Encapsulation
Cost

Cons

Memory
Execution Time limits
Error Reporting

Return on Investment

Cost
Response Time
It really does a good job of changing your engineering team's thinking to Cloud based

Usability

10

Because it has so many accessible portals on how to use. While it is standard practice to upload your deployments via some kind of Cloud Formation automation controls, it does have powerful UX for using in-console controls for Lambda Deployment. This is almost 10 more words to fill out this section.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Likelihood to Recommend