Director - Technology Operations at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Good performance and easy to use and install
Pros and Cons
  • "Some of the most valuable features are that it's easy to install and use. The performance is also good."
  • "Lambda could be improved in the sense that some of the things done with Lambda function take some time. So the performance could be better and faster."

What is our primary use case?

We have a DNS as a service and NAS as a service, which integrates, and we use Lambda functions there. We have a lot of applications that we use Lambda for. 

This solution is cloud-based. 

What is most valuable?

Some of the most valuable features are that it's easy to install and use. The performance is also good. 

What needs improvement?

Lambda could be improved in the sense that some of the things done with Lambda function take some time. So the performance could be better and faster. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Lambda for many years. 

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This solution is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This solution is scalable. 

I think, eventually, we will increase our usage. We need to move some of our services to Lambda. 

How are customer service and support?

Amazon's technical support is good. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before implementing Lambda, we had legacy types of solutions. 

How was the initial setup?

The installation could be faster, but I believe it's a straightforward process. I manage a team that handles the installation, so I can't comment on the specifics of the installation process. Within the team that handles maintenance and deployment, we have two engineers. 

What about the implementation team?

We implemented this solution through an in-house team. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We don't need to pay for licensing to use Lambda. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate AWS Lambda an eight out of ten. I would recommend AWS Lambda to others. We provide a lot of services, part of which is that we write Lambda functions. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Cloud Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Straightforward to set up, easy to configure, and offers good stability
Pros and Cons
  • "Technical support has been great in general."
  • "It would be ideal if we could use the solution across different platforms."

What is our primary use case?

Lambda can be used for automating AWS resources. 

It can also be used for automation outside of the cloud and for serverless applications. With Lambda, you can apply the code directly. 

What is most valuable?

The stability of the solution is very good, as is the performance.

It's a brilliant Amazon service that provides for many use cases. It's quite flexible.

The product has been very easy to use. All you have to do is configure a Lambda function and then deploy your code directly there and then you can invoke it in different ways. 

It is easy to configure.

The initial setup is very straightforward. 

Technical support has been great in general.

What needs improvement?

It would be ideal if we could use the solution across different platforms.

The integration could be better.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for three years at this point. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable and the performance is great. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have multiple applications. Most of our applications are Lambda-based, I would say there are around a hundred at this point.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support on offer is brilliant. There shouldn't be any concern with contacting them. they are helpful and responsive. We are satisfied with the level of service on offer from them.

How was the initial setup?

We have found that the solution is easy to install. You just have to do it through the UI and you can easily configure it and deploy it directly.

For deployment, et cetera, we just need one cloud ops engineer per day.

What about the implementation team?

I was able to handle the implementation myself. I did not need the assistance of any consultants or integrators. Individual users should be okay if they want to install it themselves. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We don't need to worry about monthly or yearly licenses. 

What other advice do I have?

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. I've been very pleased with its capabilities in general.

I would recommend the solution to other users and companies. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Senior Cloud Consultant at GBM
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Mature and scalable with a straightforward setup
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is highly scalable."
  • "The user-friendliness of the solution could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

The product serves as a function as a service, a serverless environment, you can say. It's a serverless environment, or, as some people call it, function as a service, FaaS.

We have been using it as a mobile backend. We have a mobile frontend, a mobile application, which uses the AWS Lambda functions running in the cloud. It serves as an API backend for a mobile application that is running in the frontend.

What is most valuable?

The solution is highly scalable.

The solution has proven itself to be stable.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

We've found the cost to be very good. It would be a great option for startups due to the low pricing.

The solution is very mature.

What needs improvement?

The user-friendliness of the solution could be improved. If it was easy to run with the same function in other platforms, other environments, that would make it more portable. That would be really good. User-friendliness and portability will be the two factors that need the most improvement.

The startup time sometimes needs to be faster, so that is one area of improvement. The startup time of each function can be slow. When it works the first time, it takes a little bit of time, so there's a minor delay. That could be improved.

The support of additional languages would improve the solution.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for a couple of years at this point. It's been a while.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is pretty mature by now. It's been there for a few years with AWS and they're continuously improving it. It's pretty mature. The stability is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is highly scalable and also very cost-efficient. You only pay for the time, the duration of time and that's in maybe seconds, microseconds. You pay very little until you have very large-scale users. It is ideal for startups who want to deploy applications on the cloud.

While internally only our developers really use the solution, the mobile application is used by thousands of users globally.

We do plan to increase usage and will be adding more functions to our application.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

While something was used before, it likely wasn't serverless. 

I'm aware that Oracle and Azure have certain options available.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's very straightforward. 

The deployment times vary. It really depends on what you need to deploy.

What about the implementation team?

Our developers managed the implementation process. A consultant or outside integrator was not required. It was all handled in-house.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is very cost-efficient.

What other advice do I have?

We are using the latest version of the solution currently. I cannot say which version number it is. I don't know it off-hand.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been pretty happy with the capabilities so far.

I would recommend the solution to other organizations. This is much better than the other serverless solutions.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Rohit Zanwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical manager at Flipkart
Real User
Top 20
Excellent serverless architecture for a good price
Pros and Cons
  • "AWS Lambda's most valuable feature is serverless architecture."
  • "There are sometimes issues following an update."

What is most valuable?

AWS Lambda's most valuable feature is serverless architecture.

What needs improvement?

There are sometimes issues following an update.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using AWS Lambda for about five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

AWS Lambda is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

AWS Lambda is scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward and took only a few minutes.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

AWS Lambda's cloud version isn't expensive, and I'd rate its pricing as five out of five.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate AWS Lambda ten out of ten.

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SurjitChoudhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at Cocos pt
Real User
Top 5
Does not need server configuration and can be used for short-term automation processes
Pros and Cons
  • "Because AWS Lambda is serverless, server configuration is not required, and we can run it directly anywhere."
  • "If it is a specific ETL process or a long-term one, then AWS Lambda is not a good option."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case is processing data. We use the pipeline multiple places to process the data. Whatever JSON files we get, we have to standardize, enrich, and also format to the application.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is that it's serverless. Therefore, server configuration is not required, and we can run it directly anywhere. We can write Java code or Python code in that.

The initial setup is straightforward as well.

AWS Lambda is good for short-term automation processes.

What needs improvement?

If you want to run processing data, which takes less than 15 minutes, then you can use Lambda. However, if it is a specific ETL process or a long-term one, then AWS Lambda is not a good option.

The longer Lambda runs, the higher is the cost incurred because the cost is based on runtime.

At times, it hard to know when Lambda should be used and when it should not. So in the future, if there are serverless extensions, it would be fine.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been working with AWS Lambda for six to seven months.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of AWS Lambda is straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost of AWS Lambda is based on runtime.

What other advice do I have?

It's a good product, and we use Lambda for short run processes, for example, processing a file from the landing zone. Suppose FTP or SFTP has put a file in one landing area, and we have to push a file to the S3 bucket. We would not need to do any writing, shell scripting, or Linux coding, etc. In general, with Lambda you can get the Python coder or Java code.

So, professionals can easily perform these tasks within a short time. This will help with agile processes and sprints. My advice is that AWS Lambda is a good service for short-term automation processes.

I would rate AWS Lambda at eight on a scale from one to ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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Assistant to Vice President at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
Has a rich set of services and enables us to focus on building the business functionality that we want to build
Pros and Cons
  • "It's a serverless solution which is the best feature. It helps us because it offers free aspects. From the infrastructure perspective, it helps us manage costs. There is no overhead of estimating how much infrastructure we're going to need. We can focus on building the business functionality that we want to build."
  • "If you are setting it up on hybrid solution, there is a lot of work that needs to go in."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is for our financial institutions. We use it for many customers that we work with. We develop solutions for our customers and run them on AWS. We wanted to build the solution on the public cloud and out of all the public cloud providers, AWS is the best. It has a rich set of services. 

What is most valuable?

It's a serverless solution which is the best feature. It helps us because it offers free aspects. From the infrastructure perspective, it helps us manage costs. There is no overhead of estimating how much infrastructure we're going to need. We can focus on building the business functionality that we want to build. 

What needs improvement?

Lambda didn't use to support all the capabilities, if you wanted to initialize it before started serving the requests, it is not possible. In the most recent upgrades, they have added this feature. There is nothing missing. If there is something missing, AWS has other solutions that covers it. I look at Lambda as a piece of AWS, working in conjunction with other solutions.  

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using AWS for two and a half years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We don't have any issues with stability or scalability. We have offline and online users. There are thousands of online users. 

How are customer service and technical support?

Their support is excellent. We have no complaints. It can be expensive, we bought the enterprise support. If you don't want to spend the money, you might run into issues but that isn't the case for us. 

How was the initial setup?

Everything was set up in the public cloud. We didn't need to set up a lot of things. We didn't have to connect a lot of connectivities to external applications. If you are setting it up on hybrid solution, there is a lot of work that needs to go in. You need to understand what your organization's security standards are, how the different teams are going to access the infrastructure, etc. For hybrid, it will take a lot of time but for only the public cloud, it is quite easy. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

AWS is slightly more expensive than Azure. But from a maturity perspective, AWS is way more ahead than Azure. 

What other advice do I have?

I would rate it a nine out of ten. It was missing features like initialization but they are available now in the latest release. 

It is good for smaller companies that don't have a lot of staff that will manage the infrastructure. It automatically scales based on the users and allocating the resources. From a cost perspective, it is quite cheap. It takes out a lot of overhead. If it's for a large company with a lot of experts, there are other good solutions. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Ibrahim-Rasras - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead solution architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Scalable and responsive support
Pros and Cons
  • "The support from AWS Lambda is very good, they are responsive."
  • "AWS Lambda has some size limitations in the code line, you can't do a couple of functions to do the job."

What is our primary use case?

AWS Lambda is used for the whole surface, it does the backups, and schedules, and learns some of the core functionalities but it can depend on the topic or application. The solution is used to build APIs and many other functions 

What needs improvement?

AWS Lambda has some size limitations in the code line, you can't do a couple of functions to do the job.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using AWS Lambda for approximately six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

AWS Lambda is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

AWS Lambda is in the cloud which makes it scalable.

I have worked in many companies that have used this solution and some of them had a lot of users.

How are customer service and support?

The support from AWS Lambda is very good, they are responsive.

What other advice do I have?

I rate AWS Lambda a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Lead architect at Tech Mahindra Limited
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Easy and cheap solution
Pros and Cons
  • "I have found all of the features valuable. It's an easy and cheap solution."
  • "AWS Lambda could be improved by increasing the size of the payload. Also, sometimes Lambda doesn't implement well for bigger solutions."

What is our primary use case?

My primary use case for this solution is usually for event-driven architecture. Since it's AWS, it's cloud-based. 

What is most valuable?

I have found all of the features valuable. It's an easy and cheap solution. 

What needs improvement?

AWS Lambda could be improved by increasing the size of the payload. Also, sometimes Lambda doesn't implement well for bigger solutions. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This solution is stable. 

How are customer service and support?

I would rate customer support a nine out of ten. I have made three or four service requests and those were all resolved within 24 hours. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I didn't use a different solution before implementing Lambda. 

How was the initial setup?

The installation is straightforward. There isn't really anything you need to do. If you know exactly what you want, it can be done in five minutes. 

What about the implementation team?

I implemented this solution myself. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I pay for a monthly license. The licensing options will depend on the users. There's a monthly option and a yearly option. 

What other advice do I have?

Lambda is a good and cheap solution and I would recommend it to those without a huge payload. There are around twenty or thirty people using Lambda in my organization. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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