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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

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Users consistently praise AWS Lambda for its serverless simplicity and automatic scaling, which allows them to focus on writing code without managing infrastructure. The seamless integration with other AWS services enhances development speed and efficiency, making it ideal for event-driven applications. However, many note the 15-minute execution limit and cold start latency as common limitations.

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Vikas L.
VL
Associate Projects
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best service for serverless applications"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

This service offers to develop serverless applications. It is very fast and can be configured as per need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Nothing is there to dislike except online editor is not available for .net programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh P.
RP
Software Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AWS Cloud is the best place to start with any cloud services"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Ec2, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Load Balancer, Cloudfront, Glacier, SNS, EBS, Autoscaling, SQS, BeanStalk, Cache, MemCahe, Reshift, Cloudwatch, VPC security options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

NOthing of a sort, but sometimes they change the to newer version n olderversions stared having security issues, that's like forcing to update, that's the only dislik Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shanmukha Sampath Kumar T.
ST
Student
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"For any software requirement, AWS has a solution."
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

AWS has many solutions that suit various requirements. I've used some of them for a project and the most I liked was the options to customize them to suit our needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

The variety of choices sometimes confuses you. Not all of them are marked as to what changes with a certain option. A glossary or an index of components guide will be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meenakshi A.
MA
Senior Solution Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AWS Lambda - When and where to use"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is any time or event trigger with any of infra (cloud or On-Premise) using any technology of choice in any availability zone.

Other players have these bundled into their PAAS, SAAS offerings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

A Unified Console/UI with configurable options/UI Controls without requiring any developer intervention, as for any business user to Infra/Ops team.

This would aid in better understanding and business/Infra/Ops utilization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Denson A.
DA
Building LeemoBook
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I loved AWS Lambda for my startup!"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

1. You get billed for only the time script actually runs

2. No constant billing for your script to exist

3. You can choose between a number of coding docker images and use them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

I didnt find much downsides, however a few are:

1. It can be complex to create and assign IAM roles for interacting with other services

2. Limited Images that can be used Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
UB
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Powerful but to be used with caution"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

How easy it is to create resources at scale, found this really useful when I was learning AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Love the minimalistic look and feel of the UI but it's becoming old, it's not that it serves the purpose but it's just that you see it quite often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prakhar T.
PT
Co-Founder
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Review of AWS for startups and SMEs"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

AWS is very reliable and cost-effective at the same time it's seamless to deploy production-ready apps on AWS. AWS codepipeline is very useful tool for CI-CD and elastic beanstalk deploys the apps that are very fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

I have to think about that, AWS has all the features which any startup would need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Krushna M.
KM
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Another cutting edge cloud solution from Amazon"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

It is most useful in Adding custom logic to the amazon S3 and dynamo db tables and it is also even driven serverless platform. And will definitely stanf strong against the competitors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

testing obstacles and challenges in execution are the major things I dislike about lamda and it is a limted execution

Duration and monitoring and debugging limitations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swapnil B.
SB
Infra Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Serverless computing made easy"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

It eliminates the need to have a physical server. It coneects apis effortlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Pricing makes it a bit expensive but still the leader in its field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankit S.
AS
Co-Founder
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Easy and the UI is very smart"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

1) Easy

2) UI Editor is very easy

3) Billing is very simple

4) Very easy to implement

5) SDK are very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

JAVA Lambda function can also be on the IDE, We need to Use the zip file to upload the zip file for JAVA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

Average Discount

12%

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