AWS Lambda Reviews & Product Details

The granular nature allows developers to build and solve very specific problems. Pricing and deployment of lambdas is easy and quick too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have run into a few scenarios where a different approach instead of Lambdas is a more appropriate solution. Long-running or memory-intensive tasks are not as well suited for Lambdas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Lambda is an excellent service when you need to deploy something simple and quick. It's easy to use, monitor and deploy. It's versatile and can be used to act on schedules or respond to external triggers efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although it has improved over time, you must consider that your local development workflow will be different when working with AWS Lambda. If you wish to use container images, be aware that the container must be available in an ECR repository in the same account where the Lambda will be deployed. This could be improved by allowing cross-account access to ECR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

how easy it is to code and deploy it. And it has lots and lots of triggers which is quite helpful. For example, to set up a cron job otherwise would be very difficult, but lambda makes it easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are hardly anything to dislike about lambda but there is 1 thing in particular ie. for beginners it is really difficult to find understand how to use an external library. And the fact that there is a limitation of 128MB for the layers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows a very seamless and effortless execution process for the backend application. It's super useful as it freezes the lambda service when not in use and then refreezes it when a request is send via an API hence you only get charged when lambda is executing code only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For a regular use of simple applications it's a developer's dream as it takes care of the firewall and the server configuration, however it allows very low control and customization over the environment. It also doesn't support multiple programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its simplicity. Multiple examples to choose from. Dynamic. Code using multiple choices of language. It can used with or without aws vpc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much, sometimes 15 minutes timeout is insufficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Serveless compute is the most liked feature of AWS lambda. One can code on the go and deploy quickly with layers. Good for jobs that runs quickly and more frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Timeout limitation, cannot use lambda for data-intensive tasks that require more time to load the data into the target. Timeout and payload limits are a few limitations that can be a deal breaker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful things about AWS Lambda are -

Without worrying about provisioning servers we can run code within seconds at any scale.

Effective pricing model with Pay only for your compute time. (milliseconds, seconds) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Downsides of using Lambda are -

If your codebase is large and complex, lambda doesn't work well because it has limited execution time.

Because it is serverless, you don't have control over the environment which sometimes makes it difficult to monitor and debug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have started using this application two months back. At first, it took me a bit of time to learn it, but after that, I was able to use it perfectly, and the cost that AWS Lambda charges are very reasonable. Also, it has this layer feature in which you do not have to export a file each time you want it, and it will be automatically added to the layers of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This service is very helpful, but the call patterns in AWS Lambda are a bit complex because we have to configure the test events every time we want to test our code which can be a bit hectic but apart from that, I faced no problem in using that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The number of frameworks with which functions can be programmed, in addition to the ease of deployment and connections with the rest of the Amazon Web Services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing bad to say about them, perhaps something to improve is the visibility of the logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Lambda is a very good FaaS (Function As A Service). If you are looking out to build projects on serverless architectures.

This is one of the must have services, it integrates well with AWS API Gateway, and if your software ecosystem is on AWS, you'll find that Lambda comes in handy in many sticky situations as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keeping lambdas warm is an additional overhead that comes into play when you choose to go for using function as a service.

So keep that in mind while designing serverless architectures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.