AWS Lambda

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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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AWS Lambda for creating serverless systems

Reviewed on 2022/08/27

Fantastic!

Fantastic!

Pros

We have decided to use AWS Lambda to move some of the workload out of the servers that were not used often to process some of the workloads. I have never worked with Serverless approaches before, so AWS Lambda was my introduction to serverless world.

AWS Lambda provides API in several programming languages, so it was very easy to jump straight into implementation and write some functions. It turned out to save a lot of money, because we could stop the server that was used sparsely. AWS Lambda has consumption based model so it was very cheap and superb effective.

Cons

I did not find any cons. Obviously it is not possible to write big services with AWS Lambda but some of the workload can be easily moved to Lambda to save on costs and maintenance.

Fidel
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Most fast and scalable server-less service

Reviewed on 2022/08/09

AWS Lambda allowed us to quickly upload pieces of reusable code for different projects in many...

AWS Lambda allowed us to quickly upload pieces of reusable code for different projects in many languages without the need of including it to a framework. The service is capable of executing scripts at request, through the API Gateway without using any server, which reduces a lot the billing, making it almost free.

Pros

Every script uploaded into Lambda can be attached to an automatic trigger and an API Gateway endpoint. This could save a very important amount of memory usage for certains applications because the processing is made by AWS. It offers the convenient possibility of hosting your app in a Bitbucket or to upload it directly as a zip, saving a lot of time in complex deployments.

Cons

There are not cons regarding this service. It does what offers, a fast and very reliable server-less service that can execute scripts in parallel than your apps.

Andy
Andy
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Lightweight processing - good for initial phases of scaling

Reviewed on 2023/01/17

It's really great to use from a developer perspective. It is a simple deployment process and...

It's really great to use from a developer perspective. It is a simple deployment process and maintaining dynamic loads to "kind of" match traffic demands. Do be careful of heavy applications, I find the cost grows the fastest with a lambda that has high memory demands more than increasing the number of lambda instances.

Pros

Using AWS lambdas provides an excellent win from the perspective of development velocity and removing the complexity around deployment and maintaining infrastructure. It allows developers to focus on the actual business logic of the services/processes instead of the tools being used. It should be noted, that this also reduces the number of places where things are likely to go wrong which is an underappreciated benefit.

Cons

This is quite expensive compared to a service/process you create and manage from the ground up. In the long run, you'll likely either find yourself moving away from using lambdas, or constantly redesigning your architecture to reduce the cost while servicing more throughput/complex logic. That is probably true for most software tools, but lambda processing costs can grow quite unexpectedly. Beware of memory demands - that can quickly add up and otherwise crash your lambdas (semi quietly) in the background.

Ashveen
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Excellent add-on for your integrations

Reviewed on 2022/04/07

I use it for a variety of cases such as thumbnail generation, email notifications, url rewriting,...

I use it for a variety of cases such as thumbnail generation, email notifications, url rewriting, websockets chat. It has always delivered and never had issues with uptime or capacity.

Pros

Easy to integrate with other AWS services through node.js or python code. This is my preferred way to extend services for adhoc customizations. With step-functions, one can go even further with chaining of functions.

Cons

Debugging, testing deployments and logs can be somewhat tedious.

Abhinav
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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Best and highly scalable serverless programming ecosystem in market

Reviewed on 2022/03/30

it's a awesome thing to learn and use in daily life. I deploy lot of my applications using aws...

it's a awesome thing to learn and use in daily life. I deploy lot of my applications using aws lambdas. It's fast and scalable and I love this experience.

Pros

Aws lambdas provides devloper a tool that can manage all there deployment and scalability. Coders can just focus on logic and codebase and aws lambdas take care of rest.

It's auto scalable feature is super useful for dynamic traffic.

Cons

it's bit costly compared to normal ec2 machine tho we can minimise the cost with lambdas auto turn off when not in use feature.
Other then this it's not easier to get directly hands, I found it bit trickier at first glance.

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud

Reasons for Choosing AWS Lambda

I found aws more reliable and faster compared to gcp.

Switched From

Google Cloud
Mckenzie
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Lion of the Cloud functions

Reviewed on 2021/07/03

Very useful

Very useful

Pros

Aws lambda functions made developers lives a little easy by providing lot of nitty witty integration and ease of build by supporting major programming language. A real eye opener for serverless architecture

Cons

Nothing that can be seen as a negative.. however an optimal solution for cold starts can be arrived with no extra cost..

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure

Reasons for Choosing AWS Lambda

Moved from azure to aws as part of client preference

Reasons for Switching to AWS Lambda

While our dependency was on a higher architectural advantage for aws over azure, this switch from azure functions to aws lambda an inclusive transition
Gavin
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Serveless architecture that works

Reviewed on 2021/11/11

Pros

In an attempt to move to newer serveless technology we decided to go with AWS. With the use of AWS Lambda, triggers and API Gateway we can create dynamic, powerful, database driven websites that don't require hosting, pay for what our customers use, completely scalable, secure and reliable.

Cons

It can take a while to get used to serverless architectures, primarily the idea of it being stateless. API gateway can also be complex to get right, but it's absolutely worth it.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

Reasons for Switching to AWS Lambda

AWS ticked more boxes than the other options.
Ana Rafaela
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Functional architecture to fast development

Reviewed on 2023/10/02

Pros

A meticulously designed serverless architecture.Exceptional service availability.Proficient Python comprehension.Seamless team adaptability.Abundant features for seamless integration with RDS, S3, and various other AWS services.

Cons

- Low monitoring capability- Few documentation to set AWS CloudWatch- Feature CLI is too hard to set because each detail declaration is concerned to functions

Feterzon
Feterzon
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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

AWS Management Console for easy manage the cloud

Reviewed on 2023/01/28

Pros

development will easy when we can do from console, this tools menu have powerfull tools for development

Cons

some of the command need to have time for this role apply.

Raamnaaraayan
Raamnaaraayan
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Lambda Password Rotation Feature is Fantastic for my RDS Instances

Reviewed on 2021/12/24

1. In my Enterprise, we use Lambda to keep in track of our Amazon RDS instance's password policy...

1. In my Enterprise, we use Lambda to keep in track of our Amazon RDS instance's password policy which needs to be changed once in every 30 days.

2. We set up lambda function using Python and utilize AWS Secrets Manager to store our password.

3. When the 30 days period occurs in the Secrets Manager, it automatically triggers our lambda function and changes our RDS password.

4. Since manual changing of passwords can be challenging and time consuming, automation through our Lambda function makes everything easy and cost-effective.

Pros

1. I like how I'm able to implement lambda functions with various languages of my choosing whether its Python, Java, Go, Powershell, Ruby or Node.js

2. I effectively save cost by using lambda for my deployments as I pay for the computation time during which my lambda function is running.

3. Since its serveless architecture, I don't have to worry about the underlying infrastructure or its maintenance.

4. It gives me event-based trigger which eases my deployments as it enables automated procedure based on my lambda functions.

5. It is helpful to perform various operations and resource administration activities like monitoring resource status, updating security patches, deploying applications, etc.

Cons

I didn't find anything to like as least abut AWS Lambda. One thing to mention is, the TTL for each lambda is 15mins so after that period so if its customizable means we will be able to do more deployments running a single lambda function.

Rakesh
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

AWS Lambda a Life-Saver

Reviewed on 2023/04/30

Absolutely awesome, containers and functions are also integrated making it even more powerful.

Absolutely awesome, containers and functions are also integrated making it even more powerful.

Pros

Cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with Github pipelines and versioning make it so easy for us to deploy compute.

Cons

Not a real down-side, if run time can be increased to 30 minutes it will cover all of our payloads

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

maybe useful for specific applications

Reviewed on 2023/02/07

After trying it for 1 week I decided to use an AWS EC2 instance for my application instead

After trying it for 1 week I decided to use an AWS EC2 instance for my application instead

Pros

Good trial tier. It is AWS so it has a good structure

Cons

Not easy to implement and probably better to start using AWS EC2 for most of the day to day uses you can have on Lambda

Darian
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Review for AWS Lambda

Reviewed on 2021/07/07

Lambda allowed us to keep our code contained and efficient. We moved from running all our API code...

Lambda allowed us to keep our code contained and efficient. We moved from running all our API code on a single "project" hosted on a server, to running many small codebases which targeted specific functionality. The change in mindset I believe was helpful in making sure that each new endpoint we build is as fast as it could be.

Pros

We like how Lambda is able to be deployed and updated quickly. It allows us to spend less time worrying about server loads or accessibility knowing that it is on the cloud and reliable.

Also the benefits of being ingrained in the AWS infrastructure is helpful with connecting to our other services.

Cons

I think the console aspects of the software could use improvements. Here are some examples:
1. The testing UI is basic. You can create test cases, but in doing so you can't even view the codebase unless you click off. I would like to be able to look at both at the same time.
2. The code editor could use some enhanced functionality of popular editors like VSCode or even google docs. Specifically, one thing I noticed is I cant do CTRL+} with several lines highlighted to tab all lines over.
3. Lambda Layers are helpful but I would like to be able to view the code inline somehow rather than just see the version of the layer i am using. It would make it easier to differentiate when your lambda layer has several dozen versions, which version I am using or need.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Integrate with AWS Lambda

Reviewed on 2022/12/14

Overall experience is rich with the instance response to custome code integrated to back end.

Overall experience is rich with the instance response to custome code integrated to back end.

Pros

Most liked about this software is it's API integration with connectivity to database to store the important data.

Cons

Lease like is built in fault talaurance feature.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

AWS Lambda is a cheap and very useful

Reviewed on 2022/04/13

We are using it as part of a streaming pipeline and also as a web api for downstream systems. It it...

We are using it as part of a streaming pipeline and also as a web api for downstream systems. It it working really well, except when there are cold starts, which can cause delay in the processing or timeouts on the serving layer

Pros

budget friendly for small to medium workload
easy to deploy using AWS CDK or terraform.
supports multiple runtimes for different programming languages
provides monitoring and logging out of the box.

Cons

cold starts can be too slow if your architecture is time sensitive.
It can get expensive for very high number of invocations.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

AWS Lambda - Flexible Compute Option

Reviewed on 2022/03/15

AWS Lambda is great tool which serves various purposes on team. I have been using AWS Lambda for...

AWS Lambda is great tool which serves various purposes on team. I have been using AWS Lambda for more than a year to process and upload data to AWS. It reduces the headache of maintenance and scalability which helps with the development. Being a serverless framework, it is easy to develop and test in local. It is being widely used in our account by different teams for devops.

Pros

Diverse support to runtime languages, Seamless integration with other AWS services, Heavily scalable, Execute small tasks quickly, Create functions and automate processes.

Cons

Not cost effective as every call to a function will be charged. Limited plugins and execution time.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

AWS Lambda Revire

Reviewed on 2021/07/11

We are happy with this as its server less and only act then its meets. Certain condition.

For us...

We are happy with this as its server less and only act then its meets. Certain condition.

For us giving summation email acknowledgment or trigger a new log make us very happy

Pros

Rather than says no it as a software, I would say it’s a function.

I can use this without using any dedicated or shared compute resource. It’s very fast and need very less resource to run.

Cons

You need to know how to use and the way how effectively you can use it else this may come a huge billing

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Lambda: Serverless compute service

Reviewed on 2021/07/24

Lambda is a great service for running applications in the form of function. It's growing at a very...

Lambda is a great service for running applications in the form of function. It's growing at a very fast pace so soon we can expect many features and integration options.

Pros

1. Great service for running monitoring and other similar scripts
2. It saves a lot of cost of
3. Almost zero management
4. Great integration with AWS services

Cons

1. Limited execution duration
2. Monitoring is not that good
3. Testing Lambda is not easy
4. Unexpected latencies

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

New era for computing

Reviewed on 2021/11/23

I am very happy that such a solution is available for personal use.

I am very happy that such a solution is available for personal use.

Pros

Eliminates concerns about OS, dependencies, etc. It is really great to have a scalable solution without paying for a fixed price. Also triggers like API, Queue,Scheduling is very helpful for different cases.

Cons

Bundle size and cold start times may be limiting for big projects. Also DB connection management can be a problem for concurrent runs.

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud

Reasons for Choosing AWS Lambda

to benefit the serverless world
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Good if need to scale and save spend

Reviewed on 2022/07/07

Pros

AWS Lambda offers scale that most other platforms can't and the price point is great

Cons

Super hard to configure as compared to say Twilio Functions or other serverless platforms

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

AWS Lambda - From Server to Serverless

Reviewed on 2022/04/14

Pros

1. Compression on the run.
2. Scalable and still Cost Efficient
3. Platform as a Service, no need to configure underlying operation system
4. Multiple event triggering

Cons

1. Time limit on function execution.
2. Does not support editing for a file larger than 5 MB. Folder
3. No control over the environment.

Bruno
Bruno
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Definitely an industry standard

Reviewed on 2021/11/02

I had two opportunities to contact AWS Lambda. At first, in early 2020, when I tested Amazon's...

I had two opportunities to contact AWS Lambda. At first, in early 2020, when I tested Amazon's suite of tools for machine learning, and I used AWS for certain tasks. The second occurs at the present time, in which I am evaluating cloud, backend and web server solutions to deploy a new service that I am developing, related to cryptoassets valuation.

Pros

AWS Lambda integrates with the entire suite of services provided by AWS, which in itself is exceptional. The tool's cost-effectiveness is also unbeatable.

Cons

The learning curve is not low compared to competitors. Generally speaking, AWS Lambda is a standard solution for numerous use cases. However, today there are many better alternatives on the market to solve specific use cases.

Alternatives Considered

Firebase, DigitalOcean and Azure DevOps Services
Wadinga
Wadinga
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great cloud service with simple api for developers

Reviewed on 2022/07/13

In overall, it's a great service with cheap offerings

In overall, it's a great service with cheap offerings

Pros

It's straightforward and relatively cheap compared to other cloud offerings.

Cons

Not available for all languages but at least for the top ones like Python, PHP, and JavaScript.

Sumeet
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

AWS Lambda

Reviewed on 2022/07/12

Pros

AWS Lambda serves as most powerful serverless cloud computing solution offerred by AWS.

Cons

Sometimes managing different environments could be tricky.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best Option to Run Serverless

Reviewed on 2020/10/06

AWS Lambda is the best way to run serverless code in AWS. It is a simple interface to learn and...

AWS Lambda is the best way to run serverless code in AWS. It is a simple interface to learn and works well with step functions

Pros

- Easy to test code
- Simple to set up environment variables
- Able to write code in many different languages

Cons

- Testing was a little difficult to figure out at first
- If you want to rename your function, you need to delete it and create a new one