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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2 months

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10 months

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Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Lambda is great for code components"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I really enjoy the ability to have a location to run code from that is accessible from anywhere within the cloud. Having the ability to call the Lambda processes, and also being able to orchestrate individual components, is extremely useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

When I first started, the differences in how Python is engaged was a bit confusing, and documentation on how to use it was difficult to find at first. Once I got used to it, it was fine, but it was an initial confusing hurdle to get over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

If you are familiar with Powershell or Python, it is very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have used Lambda to orchestrate integration with cloud EC2 instance creation with our ITSM solution, to create a tracking ticket each time a new instance is created and destroyed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"great product"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

No need to maintain any servers! Without servers, development proceeds much faster. Compliance and security aspects are mostly handled by AWS, so I can focus on business logic. Integration with API gateway makes standing up a REST api very easy as well. With this technique, can get a simple production quality api running in a short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Periodic timeouts or failed invocations of lambda. Most of my lambdas execute in 100s on milliseconds when veing invoked by API gateway, but sometimes, the lambda invocations fail, with no explanation, just a 500. Cold start time if improved would be nice as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ezequiel R.

Sr Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Simple solution"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I love that I can write a function and have that be accesible right away Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

I wish the passed parameter was cleaner. The body is not as clean as it could be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Give it a try. It's super easy to pick up and after you start using it, you will start thinking of all the things you can do with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use lambdas with api gateway to create independent endpoints that do specific things on my ci/cd process that is not related to my app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian L.

Sr. Consultant, Infrastructure Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Only way to go is Serverless!"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lambda is so fast and easy, and best of all cheap! Allows us the ability to quickly automate and deploy code, and run on the cheap! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Versioning is rather rough yet. Doesn't seem to work so well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Provide better clarification on lambda versioning, how and when to update the version, etc. Also encryption of variables isn't automatic when specifying KMS key, so encrypt by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Any and all. Trying to move to serverless for all infrastructure needs, including account setup, monitoring and everything in between. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kevin W.

Cloud Solutions Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Serverless Microservices for backend APIs"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Ease of iterative development. No operational management of infrastructure. Infrastructure as code via CFN templating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

There is a lack of best practices or patterns. You have to rely on custom tools or third-party frameworks for easy deployment, packaging, and passing stack outputs between CloudFormation stacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

The build / package / deploy part is the biggest learning curve. Constantly review frameworks that help with this step as things evolve rapidly / are always improving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API backends. Speed of setting up new services, ease of iteration, minimal operational effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brandt H.

Sr Solutions Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"An almost perfect solution to a complex problem"

3/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

When you get it working Lambda is an amazing way to solve the problem of idle asstes that cost money but do nothing and cost loads of money. The languages supported are pretty great too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Some of the complex use cases are very poorly documented and hard to noodle through how to do correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Lambda for personal projects"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I like being able to focus on getting something available for anyone to use without having to do much in the way of deployment effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Vendor lock in. Part of the reason I do a lot of work around Docker is because I can move my containers around as I need. But to be honest at this point, I'm all aboard the AWS train. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

If you have a simple service, or workflows you think can be off loaded to a functional workflow, use Lambda. Less ops work mean more dev work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I've used Lambda for everything from ETL pipelines to operations management work. For personal projects I use it to reduce cost of any API I want to make publicly available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Super easy to get started"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

What I like the best about this product is that it is super simple to use and it is very cost effective. The cloud9 integration to write code in the UI makes it extremely fast to test a simple lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Working with Lambdas has some gotchas when working with API Gateway. When using Node.js, some of the headers that need to be included are not well documented, resulting in frustrations when attempting to test the requests via API Gateway and Lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Use it to respond to events. You can easily setup triggers to run code in response to many different types of events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Lambdas provide an easy way to respond to events in a cost effective way while automatically scaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul L.

SW Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/27/2018

"Really the only game in town"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

If you are using micro services, and why wouldn’t you, you need to look at lambda to empower your organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

I have no negative feedback for AWS Lambda, it works perfectly as designed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/2/2018

"As an event-driven company, there was excitement around Lambda!!"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The entire event driven component as well as the server less environment. Also saving time with events that used to require custom coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

N/A - from what I understand, this was a strategic migration and was selected based on functionality, price, and ease of use. Never heard any negative feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Contact Amazon for a demo and talk about your challenges and goals, while it may be the solution for your company or needs at the time -- my guess is you're interest will increased if the capabilities align with your goals or challenges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Automation, time saving, and cost reduction from moving to the cloud 100% with a data backup that's managed and not solely owned Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.