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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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PC
head of delivery
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"simplify your life with lambda"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

its simple to use, reduces the requirement for infrastructure and quick and easy to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

the support for all languages and the requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HS
development lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Lambda layer and lib that was announced today will be great"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lambda layer and lib that was announced today will be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

It was hard to organize code and share libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AT
Director of DevOps
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Lambda for DevOps "
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lambda provides an easy way to run functions that do a well defined specific task Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

sometine the ramp up and learnign curve is long Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DW
Senior Application Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Lambda is great"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The way it forces you to keep things small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Sometimes hard to test if not online Testing in the cloud can be difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
IC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Total Flexbility at low cost"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I like that I am able to provision scripts easily without to matter about infrastructure provisioning.

It is very cheap and I can use it with all languages I am used to work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

I like all of it. Only it becomes complex to troubleshoot sometimes if just using the AWS console. But with correct tools no issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
IF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Go serverless - there's less to do!"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I like the fact we can plug Lamda in to our management and alerting framefork. No need for dedicated servers to do admin/management tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

There's not really much I don't like. However, keeping tabs and reporting on dataflows in a PCI environment needs additional add-ons (e.g. dome9) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Fantastic way to write only the code you need to"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I like that lambda enables you to strip away a lot of wrapper code that most code bases have and run just your busines logic, in addition to being able to execute lambdas from events in a variety of origin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

these are stateles, but this issues is somewhat mitigates by step functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RK
VP Warehouse & Pipeline
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The future"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

small units of work, no operations required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

size limits. We need > 256MB (even with the kludfe for an extra 500mb in /tmp) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DT
Integration Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to use"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Simple to use and its easy to deploy. Makes developing applications easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

the amount of time it takes to upload using sls -deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services
UC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great service from amazon"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I like the versatility of the product. It is amazing how many ways it can be used!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

It only allows a function to run 5 minutes!! 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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