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What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

Cost-effective with on-demand requests-based billing to cut down costs of an EC2 instance which runs 24/7 and even no need for maintenance required. Able to easily handle a thousand concurrent requests and scales automatically based on incoming requests. Support for the most popular programming languages stands out from the competition. Integration with other AWS services was seamless and very helpful to build a end-to-end product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Being stateless by design, the state cannot be maintained in most places makes it necessary to store the data either in other AWS services or any external storage. As it's a cloud-based function debugging is a bit more difficult and limited access to logs makes it more difficult. An execution timeout of 15 mins makes it hard for some long asynchronous file handling process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some offset functions that need to be separated from the main code base and doesn't need a EC2 instance to be running all the time as the incoming requests are limited and not resource intensive. And whole the security part is taken over by AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is AWS Lambda?

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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Run code without thinking about servers. Pay for only the compute time you consume.


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5.0 out of 5
"Good service for event triggered workflows"
Its a good service to you use when you have workflow which take less compute time and works on trigger for event driven setups
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"The Future of Serverless Computing."
It eliminates the need to configure or maintain servers and automatically scales up downbased on demand.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The first thing I like about AWS cloud is it's user friendly user interface and the documentation it offers for its users.

Being the largest cloud provider, it offers vast number of features that one can implement in their software development workflows.

The learning opportunities and contents that AWS offers is very much useful to cloud learners who begin with AWS as their first cloud platform.

Easy integration with multiple other platforms makes it easier for developers to work with in their software development process and day-to-day activities utilising AWS cloud.

Implementing a new workflow in AWS is much easier and simpler compared to the competitors.

The customer support AWS offers is really fantastic, including the basic support that it offers even with free of cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Given that AWS cloud has plenty of features, the cost of those features really comes at higher price compared to the other cloud providers such as Azure and GCP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS solves the need for a data center for hosting and deploying our applications.

As a startup, it was much easier for us to implement new resources in AWS and reduced the time required to launch our product in the market.

It offers multiple services which are readily available in AWS with much less configuration changes needed.

It helps us save costs and focus on building the business instead of managing the data center and its servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Philip j.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The best about AWS service is that::

1)AWS provides very vast services related to storage , servers, firewalls, networking , security .

2)AWS has good scalability, cost effective , it has good flexibilty .

its has different regions and has good availabity zones which helps with latency issues.

3)AWS provides good security for cloud it has Identity Access Management system , where datas can be protected and different users can be provided with different access and policies.

4)AWS has good security compliance.

5)AWS provided good intergartion when in comes in terms of migration and while deployment of different application using AWS services its lot easier.

6)AWS provides good documentation on its services .

7)AWS cloud provided proper updates on its services and if any new services are included proper webinars are conducted and the process and serices are explained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Only the thing i dislike about AWS is naming of its services its not easier to find a service related to a particular search and naming its terms .

like example suppose S3 any new fresher wont be able to identify it as a storage service and the related term bucket it should have something named related to storage.

like other services like lightsail we wont know it is severless if you are a fresher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS helps in meeting our business like we are a company where we provide cloud solutions and we use AWS Cloud for our work and when any clients us with any application deployment , migration and some liking to move into cloud we provide them with AWS estimates , proper documentation with proper solutions and we intake the client and which is beneficial for us . its was all beacuse of AWS cloud which helps us with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

One of the best things about AWS Lambda is its seamless integration with various AWS services like S3, CloudWatch for logging, and email services. Whenever my lambda function is not able to work properly, I can simply go to clouwatch and see the logs and it help me to understand the problem. And one more thing is that it is easy to create AWS lambda function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda has predefined limits on memory allocation (almost 10Gb)which make it not suitable for heavy workloads.

It is mostly used for the smaller product which need a less memory allocation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The seamless integration with AWS services like S3 and CloudWatch has been super helpful for me to automate tasks like file processing and logging. Plus it also provide pay much as you use. So you can monitor your expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

I like best about AWS Cloud is its scalability and flexibility and also AWS allows businesses to scale their infrastructure up or down based on demand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

number of features, ease of use, ease of implementation, customer support, ease of integration, frequency of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS Cloud solves a variety of problems and provides numerous benefits that can greatly enhance efficiency eg: Scalability and Flexibility, Infrastructure Management,Cost Efficiency AWS Cloud is helping businesses solve challenges related to Scalability and Flexibility, Infrastructure Management,Cost Efficiency and the ability to focus more on core business activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

R PREM K.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

It provides a wide variety of of services. All services are one of the best services in the market. You can also manage who can access what services on what acess levels. You can do a lot of customization in AWS cloud services. You can also do a free trial for one year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

The cost is a bit expensive as compared to other competitors. Moreover, it might be difficult for beginner to use AWS cloud services without any prior knowledge about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It provides services to companies so that they can save money of infrastructure and use the services in a pay as you go pricing model. It also solves the problem of scaling your buisness which can be limited by the on-prem infrastructures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

1. I personally rely too much on lambda functions whenever I need to automate a certain action based on some triggers which happens on daily basis. The trigger can be as simple as user clicking on a button on some UI or as complicated as getting webhook notifications from any third party website.

2. Despite AWS's other offerings like EC2, I prefer using Lambda because it is reuse a lambda function in different places of a project or any project as long as the input argument remains the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

1. At times the execution endup taking time.

2. I found it pretty intimidating for even the technical person to learn AWS Lambda and how it can be used to automate several operations and save time. Although there are help documentation one can refer to, to learn and setup their AWS functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are IT service provides and deals with client's all across US, UK, Australia and Canada. There are client who wishes to automate their business workflow and that is when I suggest them to use AWS Lambda to automate tasks based on some predefined triggers of their choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

What I like most about AWS Lambda is that it makes deploying code simple without needing to manage any servers. It scales up automatically when needed and only charges when your code is running, which helps keep costs under control. AWS Lambda also works well with other AWS services, making it really flexible for building event-driven applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

One of the challenges with Lambda is the "cold start" delay, which can slow things down a bit, especially if the function hasn’t been used in a while. Additionally, there’s a timeout limit that doesn’t work well with long-running tasks, so some processes have to be redesigned to fit within those limits. Lastly, costs can add up quickly with a high volume of requests, so it’s important to monitor usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS Lambda eliminates the need for manual server management and scales automatically to match traffic. This saves time and reduces costs, especially for variable workloads. Its pay-per-use model and seamless integration with other AWS services enable us to quickly build and deploy applications, focusing on code instead of infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sunil R.
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What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

I use to develop automation scripts , where they will be running behind a cron jobs. Too much setup when coming to api connectivity, security, integrity. But I had to pay for electricity bill and other running things. AWS Lambda is basically, you get charged based on how many hits it gets. Hardly, I can hardcode a simple script which doesn't need a overkill server and thinking about cost, yes, I love this. Also I use lamba for security automation purpose for remediation or notification. One more thing in monitoring is, I can write a code to format raw logs from any software and convert it into specific format. Highlight is, I get control of event based run, time based run etc which helps me reduce my cost as much I can. Documentation are clear and easy . Implementing, yes with basic aws service knowledge and use cases. Support : AWS stands for a community. Its a day to daay job on my side. Integration part , it can be integrated with multiple services based on the scenario or business plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

Nothing. It offfers me a good way to reduce my work and implementation process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have to remediate security issues when some threat is detected. So in case a leakage of PII on s3 by Macie, I could easily create a remediation step by encrpting the data . so lamda solves my problem of encrypting, purging with help of eventbridge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddharth Ranjan S.
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What do you like best about AWS Lambda?

The best thing about AWS Lambda is we can run/execute the code without provisioning or managing the servers and infrastuctures. It has auto scalability feature which ensures that no matter what will be the size of demand, it will still able to process and exceute it. It integrates with other AWS Services like S3, DynamoDB seamlessly. And also we need to pay only for the time it computes. It is also called Functionality as a Service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Lambda?

One of the main limitations of AWS Lambda is the time limit imposed on the execution time of a function. It can only run for a maximum of 12-15 minutes which is not sufficient for longer tasks. Also there is a latency delay in initialization when the Lambda function is invoked for the first time after being idle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The major problem AWS Lambda solving is providing compute services to the users by eliminating the need to manage the infrastructure. User doesn't need to worry about the provisioning, patching or scaling the infrastructure. We are working on a web application for a client, where the client personnel will upload the images and the web application need to resize the image for thumbnails, convert the format and add watermarks before storing it in a S3 bucket. When the user uploads the image, the AWS Lambda function will get triggered, perform the required action and store the processed image back into the S3 bucket. By implementing Lambda function, we have automated this small task and got rid of managing a server for handling image processing task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akash S.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The various services that are available to integrate and build solution softwares. Like codecommit, codebuid, codepipeline to build cicd pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

The New UI which was introduced recently has some bugs that needs to be fixed that includes automatic logout when opening VPC via RDS or Ec2 console page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It makes application deployment easy by integrating codepipeline, ECR, ECS and docker container. It helps me debug my application error more efficiently. Using cloudwatch i can also store my logs to review then to encounter application related bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.