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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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

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iris x.

software eng

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"lambda "

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

the idea of serverless, running independingly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

it is pretty complicated to set up the access right Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

scott s.

Manager, Cloud Operations

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"lambda review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

We use Lsmbe extensively. It grestly help us reduce cost across our infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Lambe functions can be mismanaged easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Changing the game one function at a time"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Low administrative overhead, high scale and flexibility - win, win. AWS Lambda makes it quick and easy to write and execute code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Tracing and debugging problems can be challenging and confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Use it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS Lambda allows enables us to improve our scaleout and fault tolerance of critical components of our solutions, improving responsiveness and reliability for our customers, all while lowering our TCO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"lots of promise, but high latency on coldstart and $$$"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

auto-scaling, don't have to worry about maintaining my own fleet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

can be pricey and large latency when a new worker starts up. can be alleviated somewhat by choosing a non JVM-based language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Too limited for our workloads"

3/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lambda works well for misc. DevOps tasks. We're starting to replace glue scripts and other ad-hoc solutions with Lambda since more of our infrastructure is moving to AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

The limits on execution time and storage mean that we must continue building out our own elastic compute infrastructure for long running jobs that are compute intensive (primarily aligning DNA sequences). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satish T.

Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Serverless all the way"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

the easiest to deploy individual task codelets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

security of the service to be taken as a separate task Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Servers are so hard!"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lambda has dramatically reduced our costs, time to market and deployment strategies. The myriad of events that it attaches continues to increase, so orchestration is becoming easier and more flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Monitoring and debugging can be a bit cumbersome out of the box, but there are solutions for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Melroy D.

Senior Systems Analyst

Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Best serverless service"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The choice of coding technologies and ease of development are great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

The timeout, but now that's been increased Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Lambda simplifies"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lambda takes a lot of the server sitting in a corner away so you no longer need to worry about turning off that one vm nobody can access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Can take some time to learn and get comfortable with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.