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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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Great product"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

No need to manage servers anymore which makes life easier. Ops work reduction. No need to manage servers anymore which makes life easier. Ops work reduction. Testing is difficult which makes TDD etc. . THis slows down devlopment at time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Testing is difficult which makes TDD etc. . THis slows down devlopment at time. Testing is difficult which makes TDD etc. . THis slows down devlopment at time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashish R.

Data engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Awesome cool tech- Lambda"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

It made my journey to serverless architecture so easy and smooth. WOrks with Python and other widely use services.

Great integration with other AWS service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Havnot figured out how to do to version control of the lambda code. global varibales Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David B.

Sr. Digital Forensic Investigator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Incident Response Automation"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lambda auto responders help us automate a lot of our security incident response runbooks. A lot of time is saved allowing us to focus more on the event rather than on the manual response Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

That it can't pour me a cup of coffee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian R.

Director of Software Engineering

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/28/2018

"Quite the Function"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I like not having to worry about infrastructure or scaling. I love the interopability with other services, events, and pipelines. Step functions are sweet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Cold start times. Cost when used with API Gateway. Alternatives to api gateway would be nice to create restful apis out of lambda functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Handling processes at sclae without management"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The sheer easiness of getting started with Lambdas. It's a very accessible service that continues to become more and more accessible each year. Now Lambda offers custom run environments the only real limit left is execution time and memory. It is incredibly versatile and ties in with so many other services such as CloudFront for custom authorization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

To be quite honest I can't really think of a major pain point with Lambda itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John B.

Group Product Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/19/2018

"Python AWS Lambda"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The ability to run a serverless python function that can interact with other AWS servers is incredibly powerful. Access to the boto3 library allows you to create an application without the need to manage a virtual machine. It is very easy to get started, cost effective and easy to manage going forward without the overhead of additional infrastructure costs and management of the infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

The UI before the recent facelift did not have a great user experience however since AWS devoted time to make the UI better this AWS application is much easier to use. The debugging experience could be better however there are way to improve this by using code modules as well as mocking frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

AWS Lambda is one of the best products AWS has at the moment. Easy to get up and running as well as a variety of other languages you can use to create your functions. Debugging functions locally can be difficult however creating a module that the Lambda functions calls can help with testing your code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS Lambda, along with API Gateway, allows you to create a simple REST API with very little effort. Lambda scales very well under load and allows you to interact with a database to persist data. It is also incredibly cheap to run and manage; the overhead to manage Lambda functions is at the code level and not at the infrastructure level which tends to take more effort over time compared to managing your code.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Craig B.

Cloud Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Loving Lambda"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I like being able to fire Lambda functions based on events triggered by other AWS serverices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Not able to import many large libraries due to limit on package size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

elmar s.

Site Reliability Program Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

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

"gap filler for the cloud"

3.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

small, infrequent devops tasks can easily be automated through lamdba without the need to standup idle infrastructure, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

not having a fargate like service for If This Then That quick building of tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jian H.

Senior Software Developer

Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"Like it being super cheap"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

It's virtually free when you go this route. The cost is your man hour. Once it's done, the cost is very minimal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

You will need to refactor your software which means you have to learn a lot of time spent up front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spencer S.

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Great platform, terrible UI"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The ability to cheaply and quickly run microservices without the need for spinning up infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

The UI for Lambda is currently (in my opinion) terrible. One long page of options mixed with modals that have a pretty poor UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.