AWS Lambda Reviews & Product Details

Simple to use product. Incredibly reliable, we've never had an outage. Amazingly cheap, good to know all that spare ec2 capacity does not go to waste! Infinitely scalable. Free for 12 months and very healthy discounts available for accelerator programs. Ability to configure environment variables and test on the console is very useful. Hooks up perfectly to other internal aws products such as rds and elastic beanstalk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't think the recent UI update is an improvement. May look better but the ux is less intuitive than before. Cron schedule expressions do not take the second argument which is unusual and can cause confusion until this is learnt. Deployment could be streamlined, aws should develop their own service like serverless js. Logging could be improved, ux on cloudwatch is not the best. VPN and security group setup is not for the faint hearted, you really need to know what you are doing here. Timeout of 5 minutes is too short for some applications we have wanted to use it for! Docs are not as clear as they could be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

serverless, managing infra is a headache at times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

limited features, limited time to live for the lambda, heard they increased it 15 mins, hope it will help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because I hate having to deploy monolithic apps and would rather deploy/update just the functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish it was easier to deploy via a pipeline Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy way to deploy and prototype new services to different stages and its auto scaling without the need to configure anytging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cold start is sometime an issue when you need to deploy the function in your own VPC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lambda is the dream of cloud finally made real. Pay only for what you use, and provision immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The challenges with local development. I feel Azure Functions has the upper hand here as their local development model feels far easier and fuller. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Relatively simple to use and deploy, cost effectiveness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More complicate to track and monitor all the different Lamdas, easily can get out of control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability run code without a need to set up or use an underlying instance (serverless). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How to link Lambda to other AWS services isn't entirely clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Worry about the business logic and not on how to run the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish Lambda can support other languages such as Perl, advanced Shell etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great for running custom code without maintaining a server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's some extra work to do for iterating through versions of code (i.e. run, debug, deploy) but there are ways to run lambda locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lambda provides an easy way to implement an ETL pipeline as well as do things like monitoring and alerts. We also implemented Lambdas as a way to control untagged resources in our AWS environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Figuring out how to properly Terraform Lambdas with the right version (outside of just LATEST) is terrible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.