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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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software eng
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"lambda "
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.

SS
Manager, Cloud Operations
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"lambda review"
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
UH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Changing the game one function at a time"
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.

Verified User in Retail
UR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"lots of promise, but high latency on coldstart and $$$"
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
UH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Too limited for our workloads"
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.

ST
Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Serverless all the way"
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
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Servers are so hard!"
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.
MD
Senior Systems Analyst
Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best serverless service"
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
AF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Lambda simplifies"
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.

AR
CTO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Data extraction functions"
What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The serverless architecture of it. Abiltiy to use it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

limit of connection time it is a pain for long running jobs 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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