AWS Lambda Reviews & Product Details

1. Server less

2. Easy to use

3. Tons of documentation

4. Go global in minutes

5. Highly scalable

6. Fault tolerance

7. Tool which can help developer to test poc and deploy the production ready code in mins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Any one edit and copy the code.

2. Concurrent issue needs to be handled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the Ease to deploy the application in AWS Lambda. We can either take the code from S3 bucket or zip the code and upload it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a provision to trigger the Lambda function based on events. So there should be some UI provision where instead of the external event, can schedule (Date or day specific) the lambda function calling mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I loved how easy it was to use and to integrate with applications, have so many features can be used in many ways, so easy to trigger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still working with this and till yet haven't found anything which i can say i disliked in it till yet working wonders for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How to scale easily compute capacity just using code in different SDK Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

could be more easily to work with step functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy integration with other service AWS provide

- How effectively AWS lambda function helps to manage application

- Cost-effectiveness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- While working with complex code it gets a bit complicated to call functions

- Timeout limit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Lambda is the easiest way of deploying software. All you would need to do is, write the code ( the backend code), and AWS Lambda can deploy the code with just a few clicks. You only spend time on writing code, and you outsource the tedious job of deployment to AWS.

AWS also ensures auto-scaling when you use AWS Lambda; the pricing of AWS Lambda is also very competitive; every month, you're granted a large number of free requests. At the time of this writing, the number of free requests is 1 million a month.

Another strong positive point about AWS Lambda is, you only pay for what you use! If you were instead using a server to deploy your code, you would deploy your code on a server that would run all the time, and you would end up paying for the server costs even when no users are accessing your software ( as your server costs are calculated on an hourly basis). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You cannot configure a lot of things that you can potentially configure if you were using a server with a load balancer attached to it.

Most things that require you to modify the network traffic behavior at the load balancer level are not easily customizable. Other than that there are no major shortcomings of using AWS Lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Supports multiple runtimes.

2. Very easy to build & deploy.

3. Multiple configurations possible (up to 10 GB of memory for one invocation)

4. Very cost effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Runtime for Java 8 takes a bit of time to load (cold start)

2. Cloudwatch logs can be made better using invocation id from search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No headache of managing servers and concentrate only on building code or logic

It is better developer workflowsith git and command line deploys vs uploading zips to lambda Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When several lambda run in the same region the performance goes down drastically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's really helpful for simple automated tasks that you know won't need a full-on server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial setup is fairly complicated. Adding more modules on python is more circuitous and much of the documentation is outdated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am using AWS Lambda for almost two years. There are several points that I like about lambda,

1. Unlike the conventional web application, it doesn't require any server to run upon, due to which there is no downtime while deploying the lambda function.

2. Compatibility with CRON expression gives us the advantage of writing different jobs separately.

3. I am using lambda functions along with other services of AWS, and it is pretty easy to use lambda with other services like SQS, cloudwatch etc.

4. Concurrent execution of lambda function is an additional feature to speed up the tasks served to lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apart from advantages, there exist few disadvantages as well like

1. there is a limit over the build size that you can deploy, and it is only 25MB, which is relatively small sometimes in an enterprise environment.

2. For the environment where we expect high load, concurrent execution needs to be high, but lambda doesn't support high values for concurrent executions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.