AWS Lambda Reviews & Product Details

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.

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

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Verified User in Medical Practice

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/3/2019

"Might be more easy to cinfigure"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

For sure autoscale, easy to deploy, cloud integration with queues, which is very convinient. Lambds supports .Net natively which is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

WEll, I dont' like the fact that CPU depends on RAM. And sometimes it takes too much time to heat lambda up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav B.

Associate Engineer - Labs

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/31/2019

"Best Cloud Platform for alexa "

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

It is very simple and user friendly for startup and setup. We can use lamda for any cloud appllication. I hvae used with amazon alexa for testing purpose. I like best they provide millions hits per month on skill.We can use it for creating alexa skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Sometimes slow on slow speed networks.

Price is more but if you are student then basic plan works for one year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Anyone who wants to learn AWS lambda Do this documentation and proper working of it.

You can learn it from their documentation or you can go through video tutorials for learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am creating alexa skills for development and studying more related to this. I have created sample skills for testing alexa echo dot device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/13/2019

"Great step towards Serverless Architecture"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Very easy to start creating serverless architecture functions to offload and scale an API/Stack/App. Failover and fail handling is great. Especially when paired with SNS and SQS. Great integrations with a lot of AWS other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Kind of hard to do CI/CD with lambda since you have to package the code elsewhere and deploy it with CloudFormation or Terraform. A bit more complex than some other methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

CodeDeploy is a good companion with AWS Lambda

SQS is a great way to catch Lambda failures

Cloudwatch Alarms to monitor invocations and concurrent invokes to watch for spikes in usage/cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scaling functions / api to be more redundant, parallel processing, multi threaded, breaking up monolithic legacy apps into microservices. Breaking down old servers into microservices with lambda was a great and smooth transition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

jack j.

angular developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/23/2019

"Application building, responsive, supports multiple programming languages, economical"

3.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Amazon web services lambda is used to develop on demand applications that are very responsive to events and new information. It is quite economical as well. AWS targets starting a lambda instance within milliseconds. The developed applications are highly responsive and timely. It also supports multiple languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Although lambda supports multiple languages, it sometimes run slower with some programming languages. It also does not provide any control over environment to the users. It has extremely complex call patterns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Users who are looking for simple options to develop various easy and simple applications may consider using AWS lambda. It is highly efficient with reduced cost of execution and automatically manages computing resources required by the program running in the backend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Lambda solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drake B.

Big Data Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/10/2019

"Eases your workload."

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

You only have to worry about your code. Amazon handles the rest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

I wish more programming languages were supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/3/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"micro services for retail industry"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

is useful and easy to use in production environment. No need a server or another thing to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

support RUST language, today use the language for build our applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/15/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Easy to use function level computing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

It very easy to setup and supports multiple languages, can get it up and running in few mins. Integration with aws api gateway for function invoke is very nice feature to have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Node packages and pip packages installation can be made more smoother (experience wise) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/27/2019

"Simple Server-less Micro-Service Deployments"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

After deploying several server-less services, we are quite impressed by Lambda. The ability to quickly deploy functions, with no architecture, across several languages, with interoperability between other AWS components, at an extremely low cost is really cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

High likelihood of vendor lock-in when you start to use APIs and interact with other services, the micro-service now relies on the AWS ecosystem and thus is hard to achieve platform agnosticism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/17/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"AWS Lambda "

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

It helps us to reduce some of the manual work or repitative work and cost optimisation as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Nothing much ,now Terraform is growing like anything and it is having many features and if it is possible to use it in lambda ,then it will be very helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.