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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2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

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Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/14/2016

"Not impressed with GraphicsMagick performance"

2.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The idea is fantastic - the goal of server-less deployment of code that means no hardware or OS maintenance and the practically unlimited scaling as a result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Cost/performance ratio is not useful for our use case, which is a shame because on paper it should be a poster-child for Lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Calculate the overall costs before going this direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We experimented with converting JPEG2000 files using the bundled GraphicsMagick library in the Node.JS flavour of Lambda. The converted file is then used to create smaller derivative image files - i.e. thumbnails. What we found is that the performance of converting a JPEG2000 file to a JPG was prohibitive in this framework. A typical JP2 for cultural heritage use is around 1.5mb and might be something like a 6000x4000 image. It was taking anything up to 13 seconds for a Lambda function to run, with the JPG conversion happening first then promise-based callbacks to process the source file into thumbnails. Multiplying the costs up for 16 million images means that it is actually cheaper to run a set of EC2 instances versus the costs of Lambda compute time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/14/2016

"Awesome opportunities!!"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The easy scalability and the very low usage cost.

Integrating AWS gateway and aws kinesis pipeline it's a huge plus as well!

At first I thought that the execution time would be a problem, but since I've started working a little bit more intensive with it, it proves me that it was faster than I though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

There were a few negative sides, especially in features, but dailly they're updating the way lambda works and now it is becoming huge!

Actually, I had problems to implement sails-waterline model adapter, since lambda wasn't planned to become a framework hosting function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Study every single AWS service before head to development so you can minimize the time that you spend coding and maximize your integration with other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm dealing with email marketing, sending, managing and templating thousands of emails daily.

Using sails-waterline to manage our models at a vpc mongo inside aws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rostislav W.

Vedoucí vývoje

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/15/2016

"AWS Lambda is the easiest way to get your code runnig in the cloud"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

- easy deployment

- 3rd party tools (serverless framework, node-labda)

- nodejs support

- you pay only for the time of execution

- detailed logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

- older version of node js

- only python, nodejs and java support (you can still upload binaries for ex. golang)

- limitations in configuration (can't be configured like virtual server) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Giacomo C.

Junior Full Stack Developer

E-Learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/14/2016

"Review Lambda"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Low price, his scalability and semplicity. Deploy a lambda function is very simple and is not painful like manage a EC2 instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Sometimes logs doesn't work and is not simple to handle larger application with a lot of library and common files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Keep in mind that is very simple to go to the wrong direction with lambda. But there is a lot of talk and resource to help you with this game changer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Low low low price, much less than EC2. Lambda solves scalability problems in a web application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marcus H.

Consultant

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/14/2016

"Smooth ride on a steep learning curve"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The platform works flawlessly but the plethora of feature and configuration is vast. Knowing what to do where is a challenge.

I love the UI and easy to navigate administrative functions. Even though I might not know what I should do I always know where I am. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

The feeling over being overwhelmed with options. When should I use all of these functions? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/14/2016

"I love AWS Lambda"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Lambda is a wonderful product, My favorite feature is the possibility of containerize each of my service with minimum effort, without worry about scalability and server maintenance. The pay per use model is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Sometimes I worry about the response time of my code after a few minutes of the last execution, i understand that AWS Lambda need to load a new instance of my container. But maybe if there were any service to keep my code warm, these would improve response times.

I would like the integration between AWS SQS and lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vasily S.

Head of Product

Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/15/2016

"We've built serverless backend on Lambda."

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Ease of use and no extra administration. Lambda is great as a product which fully implements the idea of serverless computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Some early stage bugs/undocumented behavior, nothing major. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Lambda:

Just give it a try with small prototype, it's really fast. We started this way and soon discovered that we can do all of our business logic on Lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We've built a completely serverless backend using Lambda for our main product - language learning mobile app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.