AWS Lambda Reviews & Product Details

We are using lambda as email notification scheduler and also DB related scheduler job to perform particular DB operation based on scheduled time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lambda has limitation on process time. We can't use lambda job if the process/execution time takes more than 5mins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Lambda is a compute engine that allows you to run and execute your computation code without need of maintaining servers.It has many best features like auto scalability which is require when using cloud as compute engine because as your users increase your code must work similiarly and handle those easily so AWS lambda is easily scalable.One another great thing is that it runs only when request is called i.e. you don't have to pay when your code is not running which reduces your useless cost by much.There are many other facilities provided by lambda which I have used till now.It is a great compute engine from my point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like everything about aws lambda,nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple and easy to setup. Works seamlessly with any cloud application.It's easily salable and reliable serverless option in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It sometimes run slower with some programming languages. Also a bit complicated tool to troubleshoot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how many languages are supported. It is also really nice that Amazon Web Services listens to their customers and increase the amount of run time allowed for each function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice if they increase the action time to over 15 minutes. Increasing allowed run times would allow our company to move more of our scripting off of our current infrastructure and use the serverless features available in Amazon Web Services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to quickly deploy scalable solutions, paying for only the execution time of the code is also a brilliant enabler for an efficient solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

limitations of the languages which can be deployed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best feature is auto scalability for the functions that we want to deploy. Serverless architecture so it will always run and we dont have to worry where and how it is going to run. AWS takes care of all the lambdas execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Multiple language support is not there together right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a very nice serverless system which is (somewhat) highly customizable for whatever you need. It has various options to help you integrate with your system in terms of security and cross-system accessibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a very complicated tool to troubleshoot. Being such a small and distributed system there is very few tools to help you fix any networking or connectivity issues you have to your other aws or cloud resources. It doesn't return very specific error messages and tends to have a poor UI similar to other AWS services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product grows on you over time. You might start with a simple function to respond to an event happening in your account and slowly (or quickly) grow the various things you use Lambda for., ending up with full serverless lambda apps. It's easy to get started and it grows with you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It at times feel like a challenge to setup the right minimal IAM policies but recently Amazon helped out a lot with various CLI tools and the new console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We don't need to worry about managing servers and there is no SSH or patching to worry about. This has made the time to development to new app very quick. Also it has significantly reduced our compliance scope. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have tried a number of different frameworks - HAPI, Serverless, Express, etc and ended up with Serverless framework and custom event resolvers. None of the frameworks integrate very well with API Gateway and require us to use a {proxy} resolver vs utilizing more of the API Gateway features. The 15min timeout has been somewhat of an issue. The other issue we have had is finding security and compliance resources that are familiar with the serverless approach and are able to audit and certify our environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about lambda is the serverless aspect of having a piece of code execute reliably using triggers. The most common triggers I use are scheduled, which makes scheduked jobs needing processing a piece of cake. The way that lambda communicates with cloudwatch makes it an easy way to debug any issues and monitor behavior as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't dislike much about the service, but often times I do find myself writing lambdas with many dependencies, making it hard to use the inline editor. But this is often overpassed by using a cloudformation template pointing to my local code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.