--- title: AWS Lambda Reviews meta_title: 'AWS Lambda Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 1050 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Lambda works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 1050 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-03' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # AWS Lambda Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-paas) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 1,050 ## About AWS Lambda AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app. ## AWS Lambda Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** of AWS Lambda, facilitating quick setup and management of serverless functions. (47 reviews) - Users value the **automatic scaling** of AWS Lambda, enabling efficient management of workload demands without server hassles. (35 reviews) - Users appreciate the **cost-effectiveness** of AWS Lambda, benefiting from pay-per-use pricing and efficient resource management. (27 reviews) - Users appreciate the **serverless compute solution** of AWS Lambda, enabling scalable applications without infrastructure concerns. (23 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integrations** of AWS Lambda with other AWS services, enhancing development and deployment efficiency. (22 reviews) - Easy Setup (19 reviews) - Automation (13 reviews) - Deployment Ease (10 reviews) - Reliability (10 reviews) - Implementation Ease (9 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **resource limitations** with AWS Lambda, as it suits only small datasets and has memory constraints. (36 reviews) - Users find **difficult debugging** in AWS Lambda challenging, especially due to its abstracted environment and reliance on logs. (17 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** due to cold starts, leading to noticeable latency in AWS Lambda functions. (13 reviews) - Users experience **lagging performance** with AWS Lambda due to slow initialization and execution time limits affecting efficiency. (10 reviews) - Users find AWS Lambda **expensive** , especially when considering extra costs from third-party tools and added architectural complexity. (9 reviews) - Users face **execution time limits** and cold start issues with AWS Lambda, complicating tasks and workflows for heavy operations. (7 reviews) - Users note that **complexity in configuration and dependency on external services** can hinder effective use of AWS Lambda. (5 reviews) - Missing Features (3 reviews) - Scaling Issues (3 reviews) - Cost Transparency (2 reviews) ## AWS Lambda Reviews ### 1. A serverless computing platform **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naga Venkata Satish Kumar B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** We use this for the Modernization of our applications for better performance. Because lambda runs our code on demand without any dedicated servers. This have lot of options for developers. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** As lambda functions work with the limitation of 1.5 GB memory sum times it is difficult to manage if they provide scalable option on this function that will be very useful. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modernizing our existing applications and building new ones, we use many functions where lambda is helping us. And also cost wise we are happy with AWS service. ### 2. Lambda **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Ease of use. Supports various languages **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Time limitation . Runs for very limited time. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly schedule jobs. Less cost ### 3. An almost perfect solution to a complex problem **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandt H. | Sr Solutions Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** When you get it working Lambda is an amazing way to solve the problem of idle asstes that cost money but do nothing and cost loads of money. The languages supported are pretty great too. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Some of the complex use cases are very poorly documented and hard to noodle through how to do correctly. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:** Verify that your use case is documented in a way that makes sense to you before switching. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cost reductions are tremendous for a number of our lower utilized services. ### 4. Avoid Timeout session of lambda **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** muthu m. | Software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Its very easier to develop and deploy and we can wasily montior the logs in the cloudwatch logs. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Every 5 minutes lambda getting timeout and again we need to restart the session and request needs to be go through. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have automated retry mechanism using scheduler and it will be keep the session alive. ### 5. Lambda is difficult to get working **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** The FaaS concept is useful for cost and efficiency. The graphical builder is useful for visualizing implementation. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Lack of PHP support. Triggers are very finnicky and often double-fire without a clue as to why. Log output comes into the log stream out of order, which makes development and testing difficult. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Periodic but infrequent third-party data file parsing. Processing takes only a couple of seconds so we save by not having to pay for an EC2 instance by the hour. ### 6. VP R&D **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Iftach S. | VP R&D, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Relatively simple to use and deploy, cost effectiveness **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** More complicate to track and monitor all the different Lamdas, easily can get out of control **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trigger other processes based on kinesis streams ### 7. Easy to write functions **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** F Y. | Director Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** multiple language support, auto scaling, multi region support, use of cloud watch and logging **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** need to use cloud formation, duplicate execution detection is not native **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalability and global platform ### 8. Too limited for our workloads **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Lambda works well for misc. DevOps tasks. We're starting to replace glue scripts and other ad-hoc solutions with Lambda since more of our infrastructure is moving to AWS. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** The limits on execution time and storage mean that we must continue building out our own elastic compute infrastructure for long running jobs that are compute intensive (primarily aligning DNA sequences). **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** DevOps management tasks. ### 9. We really need Lambda to be FedRAMP authorized **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** It does what it is supposed to do very well. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** The fact that it is not FedRAMP authorized causes us to do workarounds for our secure environments **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for event management where we can. When we can use it, it saves us a lot of time and effort (i.e. less python scripting) ### 10. Potential seems big, not sure about set it in production **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Seems to be a good option for new projects, without concerns about scalability and high availability **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Not sure how it wold work in long running jobs, or where it needs to interact with our internal network **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not being used yet in production, we use instead docker containers ### 11. Lambda works **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** lambda is easy to get started using and is easy to setup. like the way you can run as many instances as needed with no servers to dea; with **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** limited languages, loads at startup so can be some performance implications **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** readin/writing data to/from dynamo, processing queue messages ### 12. i'm justa newbie at lambda **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** it can automate a lot of things. i mostly used it to schedule snapshtos b4. but using it mostly for creating alert with cloudwatch.. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** more examples and help would be great. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** running scrips directly from within AWS. no need for a sepsarate environment ### 13. Good fit for serverless backends&services **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Paper & Forest Products | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Seems easy to use deploy and implement and maintain. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Not enough experience on this to say more at this point. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seems good fit for serverless use cases as we are building new apps&services in the cloud. ### 14. Lambda for serverless **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Lambda is great for developing middle tier microservices. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Cold starts of lambda function and the latenency associated with it. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use lambda as our micro services layer and it is great. ### 15. Good for the right reason **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Not having a server to set up myself is great **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** can get expensive if you use it for function you run all the time **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Infrastructure issues ### 16. Work with lambdas on a regular basis **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** I like the speed to deployment and not have to worry about servers **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Some frustrating scenarios dealing with IAM policies **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** building single scenario apps ### 17. Lambda **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** It is the best thing that one can use for automation **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Nothing. I have been able to use this ervice effectively **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation ### 18. Serverless is the future **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** Quick way to deploy some code to run without the requirements of building or maintaining a new instance **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Inability to run Ruby code, applications are limited to short run times and require a variety of services **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Management of logs, text manipulation, small time APIs ### 19. Not impressed with GraphicsMagick performance **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2016 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** The idea is fantastic - the goal of server-less deployment of code that means no hardware or OS maintenance and the practically unlimited scaling as a result. **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** Cost/performance ratio is not useful for our use case, which is a shame because on paper it should be a poster-child for Lambda. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:** Calculate the overall costs before going this direction. **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** We experimented with converting JPEG2000 files using the bundled GraphicsMagick library in the Node.JS flavour of Lambda. The converted file is then used to create smaller derivative image files - i.e. thumbnails. What we found is that the performance of converting a JPEG2000 file to a JPG was prohibitive in this framework. A typical JP2 for cultural heritage use is around 1.5mb and might be something like a 6000x4000 image. It was taking anything up to 13 seconds for a Lambda function to run, with the JPG conversion happening first then promise-based callbacks to process the source file into thumbnails. Multiplying the costs up for 16 million images means that it is actually cheaper to run a set of EC2 instances versus the costs of Lambda compute time. ### 20. Cutting edge, always changing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2016 **What do you like best about AWS Lambda?** I think that it's so infinitely scalable for a great price **What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?** I dislike that its too cutting edge. It's always changing **Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:** Help contribute to the library to make it better! **What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Lambdas as a backend. 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