We performed a comparison between AWS Lambda and Azure Stream Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."The cool thing about AWS Lambda is that AWS does all the management. For compression, it is all about making the data small and then making it regular size again. We have an encode function and a decode function. AWS Lambda schedules each of those for us. It has a load balancer and all the fancy stuff, depending on the demand. The most valuable part of AWS Lambda is that I only need to write the software. I need to write two functions, and my cloud developer turns them into two AWS Lambda instances. That's it."
"Thanks to this solution, we do not need to worry about hardware or resource utilization. It saves us time."
"AWS Lambda's most valuable feature is serverless architecture."
"The automation feature is valuable."
"The programming language and the integration with other AWS services are the most valuable features."
"AWS Lambda's best features are log analysis and event triggering and actioning."
"Provides a good, easy path from when you're using an AWS cluster."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the API Gateway."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"I like all the connected ecosystems of Microsoft, it is really good with other BI tools that are easy to connect."
"Real-time analytics is the most valuable feature of this solution. I can send the collected data to Power BI in real time."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to create a query using SQ."
"I like the way the UI looks, and the real-time analytics service is aligned to this. That can be helpful if I have to use this on a production service."
"It's scalable as a cloud product."
"The solution has a lot of functionality that can be pushed out to companies."
"It provides the capability to streamline multiple output components."
"My opinion is that the integration could be improved in this solution. We have had some difficulties integrating the EC2 module, but we found a solution for that by ourselves."
"There are sometimes issues following an update."
"The feature to attach external storage, such as an S3 or elastic storage, must be added to AWS Lambda. This is its area for improvement."
"The runtime for the solution can be improved."
"My engineers work with it on a daily basis. I just don't have enough depth of knowledge about what kinds of edge cases they may have tried and found lacking. There may be some issues with some language support at one point or another because we couldn't get the underlying libraries in there. A lot of what we do is either in JavaScript, Python, or some of the non-compiled languages. I'm not sure if we've ever tried building a C# solution, for instance, in Lambda or a Java solution in Lambda. It doesn't mean those aren't its capabilities. I would rather refer to my engineers for where the boundaries are."
"The price in general could always be better."
"We need to invest time in learning the tool's language variant. We have encountered instances of downtime as well."
"The product could make the process of integration easier."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Sometimes when we connect Power BI, there is a delay or it throws up some errors, so we're not sure."
"Easier scalability and more detailed job monitoring features would be helpful."
"The UI should be a little bit better from a usability perspective."
"If something goes wrong, it's very hard to investigate what caused it and why."
"The solution could be improved by providing better graphics and including support for UI and UX testing."
"Early in the process, we had some issues with stability."
AWS Lambda is ranked 1st in Compute Service with 70 reviews while Azure Stream Analytics is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 22 reviews. AWS Lambda is rated 8.6, while Azure Stream Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AWS Lambda writes "An easily scalable solution with a variety of use cases and valuable event-based triggers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Stream Analytics writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly, but could be priced better". AWS Lambda is most compared with AWS Batch, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark and Amazon EC2, whereas Azure Stream Analytics is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, Amazon MSK, Apache Flink and Apache Pulsar.
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