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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

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Users consistently praise AWS Lambda for its serverless simplicity and automatic scaling, which allows them to focus on writing code without managing infrastructure. The seamless integration with other AWS services enhances development speed and efficiency, making it ideal for event-driven applications. However, many note the 15-minute execution limit and cold start latency as common limitations.

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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Lambda is difficult to get working"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The FaaS concept is useful for cost and efficiency. The graphical builder is useful for visualizing implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Lack of PHP support. Triggers are very finnicky and often double-fire without a clue as to why. Log output comes into the log stream out of order, which makes development and testing difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
IE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AWS Lambda a Game Changer"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

No servers, no software installation, no patch managements, no downtimes, no load balancers, just need your executable code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

nothing to dislike except that I will forget about the servers, operating systems and many traditional software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation
UA
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Cost optized compute"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The pay as you use model, the simplicity of deployment, the connection to events triggered by other services such as S3, the effectiveness of the solution to run auick and small workloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Embedding some Python libraries can be painful as some of them are platform dependent. Would be great to have a way to automate that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MK
Senior software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to use and deploy serverless application"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The ease of use and the deployment we don't have to worry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

There are only limitation here is the no.of languages we have supported for lambda function Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RJ
Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Lambada a great serverless service"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lot of languages are supported which helps any kind of developer utilize the serverless computing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Limit on the lines of code you can write and also permissioning model is complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NH
Application Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Small code big impact"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I like that I can create small and concise code operations and manage them all independently, this allows for rapid and testable environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Serverless setup could be about 2 steps shorter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The easiest FaaS"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Simple to start. Offers the most necessary functions. MAkes it simplier to get up and running. Lambda clearly demonstrates and delivers on FaaS and makes the next level of abstration approachable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Data storage and retrieval can be difficult. Sometimes significant lag in responsiveness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CD
Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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"Software Engineer using Lambda for Security"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

the ease of use and simplicty and the manageabillity to quickly spin up and take down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

up until recently it was the time out, but now that has been increased to 15mins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazing"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I love the idea that you can write small modular endpoints that are only triggered on demand. You no longer have to server sitting idle most of the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

I really wished they supported sockets, however it looks like they added announced that support at re:invent this year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DW
CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Awesome "
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

It’s amazing for velocity and rapid iteration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Networking is way too much of a challenge, especially if running inside a vpc. Deployment is also a burden without a framework like Serverless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

Average Discount

12%

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