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As of January 2025, the mindshare of AWS Lambda in the Compute Service category stands at 20.4%, down from 27.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Computer Software Company
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Manufacturing Company
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Retailer
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Healthcare Company
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Insurance Company
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Wai L Lin O - PeerSpot user
Cloud Engineer - Supervisor at KBZ Bank
Verified user of AWS Lambda
Mar 18, 2024
A serverless solution with easy integration features

Pros

"We use AWS Lambda because it provides a solution for our needs without requiring us to manage our infrastructure. With the tool, we only pay for the resources we use. Additionally, it is straightforward to implement and integrates with other services like API Gateway. "

Cons

"We need to invest time in learning the tool's language variant. We have encountered instances of downtime as well. "
VijayKumar27 - PeerSpot user
Software Engineer at The American College
Verified user of AWS Lambda
Jul 11, 2024
Access to various other AWS resources like S3 and can use it to configure event-based triggers or conditions

Pros

"They have the built-in IDE, so everything happens without integration issues. "

Cons

"Regarding layers, you need to manually zip and install them. This step needs practice, and you might need to do it three to four times to get a hang of it."
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Khaled Saidi - PeerSpot user
DevOps Engineer | Cloud Architect & Automation Specialist | Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWS EKS at Phoenix Marketing & Advertising
Verified user of AWS Lambda
Nov 24, 2024
Essential for Real-Time Data, Media, and File Processing

Pros

"AWS Lambda's event-driven architecture is highly valuable. "

Cons

"AWS Lambda has a maximum execution timeout of 15 minutes, which is unsuitable for long-running tasks. "
DouglasStein - PeerSpot user
Director of Engineering at MemeSpark LLC
Verified user of AWS Lambda
Oct 12, 2022
An easily scalable solution with a variety of use cases and valuable event-based triggers

Pros

"The most valuable features are event-based triggers. They're really good for a reactive style when you want things to happen as soon as something else happens."

Cons

"There's room for improvement in the solution's warm start, which refers to the minimum time it takes to start up a Lambda function if you haven't been running it. "
HV
Technical Leader at FPT Software
Verified user of AWS Lambda
Jul 20, 2019
Simple to set up, scales well, and integrates well with other AWS services

Pros

"The ability to scale up and down very quickly helps because we can maintain our system performance and business at a low cost."

Cons

"Lamba functions have cold-starts that can cause some delay."
MOMEN ABDELSADEK - PeerSpot user
Senior ict specialist at Information& eGov Authority
Verified user of AWS Lambda
Jan 11, 2023
Saves setup time; stable and scalable

Pros

"Thanks to this solution, we do not need to worry about hardware or resource utilization. It saves us time. "

Cons

"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."
CS
Sr Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of AWS Lambda
Mar 6, 2024
Easy to deploy and does not need an initial capital investment on servers

Pros

"AWS Lambda is serverless."

Cons

"We face some problems with the event-driven execution model."
Precious Ogundipe - PeerSpot user
IT Support Specialist at Trinity University
Verified user of AWS Lambda
Dec 19, 2024
Cost-effective serverless solution with initial setup challenges for non-coders

Pros

"Lambda is trigger-based, which means it only activates when accessed, ensuring cost savings."

Cons

"AWS Lambda is a bit difficult to set up if someone doesn't know how to code."