We are using the solution for creating the functionality. We store files over S3 and trigger that functionality to deploy our application. We use the solution for serverless activity. Once we store the files inside our S3 bucket, we write specific scripts in Lambda for auto-configuration. Afterward, whenever we send any data inside the S3, it gets automatically picked and deployed in the particular server.
DevOps Consultant at Nissan Digital
The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to work as a serverless application
Pros and Cons
- "It is a scalable solution."
- "They should work on the solution's stability and pricing."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to work as a serverless application.
What needs improvement?
They should work on the solution's stability and pricing.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the solution for a year.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is averagely stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution. I rate its scalability as a five.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup took work. I have worked on the development activity of the solution. The cloud architect of the solution needs to learn Python programming, like coding activities, to update new scripts inside Lambda. It requires a team for the process. I came across some issues during the deployment process and was able to fix them within an hour. So, fixing the problems after raising a ticket while deploying the solution takes time. I rate the setup process as two or three for a medium-level expert. Further, I rate the process as a nine for an executive with knowledge of Python programming. If everything works well, it takes 45 minutes to deploy the solution.
What about the implementation team?
We took help from an Integrator to implement the solution. We were a team of a business analyst, DevOps engineers, and one developer working on the setup. We looped in another person in case we faced any issues.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution's price is average, and I rate it as a five for pricing.
What other advice do I have?
The solution doesn't require any maintenance if you are creating an instance on your own. In case of any issues with Lambda services, you can check with their AWS support team. Also, they have provided a support portal inside the dashboard. You can ask for their help.
AWS Lambda is a good solution. If you are well versed with Linux, AWS will be more accessible. I rate the solution as an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Site Engineer at Audio technology
You can log in with the help of a post-confirmation page
Pros and Cons
- "We are building a Twitter-like application in the boot camp. I have used Lamda for the integration of the post-confirmation page in the application. This will help you get your one-time password via mail. You can log in with the help of a post-confirmation page. We didn’t want to setup an instance specifically for confirmation. We used the Lambda function so that it goes back to sleep after pushing up."
- "The tool changes its UI every month which is very frustrating for me. I don’t know why AWS keeps changing the UI. They can’t stick to a specific one"
What is our primary use case?
We are building a Twitter-like application in the boot camp. I have used Lamda for the integration of the post-confirmation page in the application. This will help you get your one-time password via mail. You can log in with the help of a post-confirmation page. We didn’t want to set up an instance specifically for confirmation. We used the Lambda function so that it goes back to sleep after pushing up.
What needs improvement?
The tool changes its UI every month which is very frustrating for me. I don’t know why AWS keeps changing the UI. They can’t stick to a specific one.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not faced any stability issues with the tool.
How are customer service and support?
I know that AWS has flexible support but if I encounter any problem, then I just Google it. I get a lot of support from Google, YouTube videos, and Discord channels.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup was neither easy nor complex. I started learning about cloud services about six to seven months ago and already had a background in it. However, the implementation was not easy since a lot of errors just popped up. I had to check the CloudWatch logs and look into the bugs in the code. It wasn’t interesting. The deployment took around two hours to complete.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. The solution works fine for us and we didn’t require the need to maintain it. I didn’t face any problems working with the product.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Principal Data Architect at Wells Fargo
Cost-effective solution with lightweight framework
Pros and Cons
- "AWS Lambda has improved our productivity and functionality."
- "There were some timeout issues with AWS Lambda as the options provided didn't suit our business cases."
What is our primary use case?
As a platform team, we had to enable a light-weight ingestion platform ensuring the aspects of governance were baked into the platform and the business teams could accelerate their cloud adoption and only develop the business logic.
How has it helped my organization?
AWS Lambda improved our productivity and also enabled the business teams to build their ingestion systems at ease.
What is most valuable?
AWS Lambda's best feature is the lightweight framework that allowed us to bring down a lot of boilerplate code as part of platform capabilities and give the developers an opportunity to only write business-specific logic.
What needs improvement?
There were some timeout issues with AWS Lambda as the options provided didn't suit our business cases. In the next release, AWS Lambda should include integration with an IoT.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using AWS Lambda for about a year.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
AWS Lambda scales really well.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
AWS Lambda is cost-effective, with a minimal maintenance cost.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate AWS Lambda eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Lead Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It lets you trigger and run jobs instantly, and after you complete the job, that function is either destroyed or stopped automatedly
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of AWS Lambda is that you can trigger and run jobs instantly, and after you complete the job, that function is either destroyed or stopped automatedly."
- "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."
What is our primary use case?
We're using AWS Lambda to trigger jobs and receive SQS messages. We're also using the tool as a single unit where you have computing, storage, and network.
How has it helped my organization?
AWS Lambda has improved my company through its usage in a distributed system, particularly event-driven architecture. When an event is passed to AWS Lambda from Amazon SQS asynchronously, the tool can call an ETL job, and it can trigger that job, and that job can trigger an AWS Lambda function, which can then send a message to the queue to complete the entire use case.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of AWS Lambda is that you can trigger and run jobs instantly, and after you complete the job, that function is either destroyed or stopped.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using AWS Lambda for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, AWS Lambda is an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, AWS Lambda is an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I have not encountered any problems with AWS Lambda, so I didn't need to contact its technical support team.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We didn't use a different solution apart from AWS Lambda.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for AWS Lambda was straightforward.
What was our ROI?
I saw ROI from AWS Lambda.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Price-wise, AWS Lambda is a five out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
One person is enough for maintenance for a cloud-based tool, such as AWS Lambda.
I cannot share the number of AWS Lambda direct users in my company, as that figure is confidential.
My advice to others looking into implementing the tool is that it's easy to use as long as you know the basics.
AWS Lambda has good features, so I'm giving it 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)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
DevOps Engineer at United Vision
A great solution for automation and tagging and has helped our organization with cost optimization
Pros and Cons
- "The automation feature is valuable."
- "The runtime for the solution can be improved."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case for the solution is automation. There was a scenario where we tried to reduce cost in our environment using Instance Scheduler, where the AWS Lambda function was also used during that process. So we use it for automation and tagging.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution has helped our organization with cost optimization. So we have used AWS Lambda for consolidated billing.
What is most valuable?
The automation feature is valuable.
What needs improvement?
The runtime for the solution can be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the solution for approximately two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable. I rate it a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable, and I rate it a ten out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is very expensive.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Being serverless, it optimises resources and also provides the parallelism of computation
Pros and Cons
- "It enables the launch of thousands of instances simultaneously,"
- "Lambda can only be used in one account; there's no possibility to utilize it in another account."
What is our primary use case?
Lambda is basically a serverless computation service. We are partners with AWS and I'm a consultant.
How has it helped my organization?
Because Lambda is serverless, it has optimized our resources. There's no need to worry about capacity.
What is most valuable?
Lambda is very handy because it gives us the parallelism of computation. If you want to launch thousands of instances simultaneously, it can be done on one site. The solution has a 15-minute computation limit but you can create a chain with the same code so that the output automatically switches to another functionality after 15 minutes.
What needs improvement?
The only issue is that if you have Lambda in one AWS account and want to utilize it in another account, it can't be done. It's a limitation of the solution. S3 bucket provides that option with its resource access management. If you have a Python library and want to package it, you have to create the package of those libraries. It requires changing the conflict file and the patent library to create the package because the configuration is a little difficult for beginners. They should simplify package creation and configuration. Writing test cases is a little difficult because of the memory and short duration. Your computation has to be finished within that time limit.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using this solution for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We haven't had any performance issues because Lambda automatically gauges the kind of computation required.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is excellent and there is no capacity limit.
How was the initial setup?
Provided the person deploying the solution knows the format of the input, the setup is relatively simple for experienced users. Deployment doesn't take long because of the integrated machine services. Our implementation was carried out in-house. It doesn't require any maintenance once it has run for a month.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Licensing costs are reasonable even though you have to pay for the computation and for the volume of data. Once the work is done, the storage is freed up so you only get charged for the instance.
What other advice do I have?
If an organization wants to go serverless, Lambda offers a truly serverless service. Even though there are some areas that could be improved, I rate this solution 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
CEO - Founder / Principal Data Scientist / Principal AI Architect at Kanayma LLC
Serverless compute server used for data processing type transformations from one source to a target
Pros and Cons
- "Lambda has improved our organization by making it possible to transform data."
- "Lambda has limitations on the amount of memory you can use and is not a good solution for long running processes."
What is our primary use case?
There a variety of use cases for this solution but it is mostly used for data processing type transformations from one source to a target. In instances when Lambda works well, we are planning to increase usage.
Deployment and maintenance of Lambda requires two people but this may increase depending on the size of the deployment.
How has it helped my organization?
Lambda has improved our organization by making it possible to transform data.
What needs improvement?
Lambda has limitations on the amount of memory you can use and is not a good solution for long running processes. If the amount of data is reasonably small, it will run and transform successfully. If you have tons of data coming in, it stops working and you have to restart it.
The orchestration and coordination between different Lambdas could also be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used this solution or a couple of years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This is a fairly stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This solution has some limitations on scalability due to the problem with coordination between the different Lambdas. Is it not very straightforward and you have to do a lot of testing.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was fairly straightforward.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others to use it in those circumstances where it works well and to be aware of the problems with coordination and orchestration. Make sure that it doesn't have to process tons of data.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer at sonne technology
The latest cloud technology ensures that projects deploy with ease
Pros and Cons
- "The solution runs on the latest cloud technology so it is easy to deploy cloud-native projects."
- "It can be a bit difficult to switch between accounts when creating services for customers."
What is our primary use case?
Our company uses the solution as a function engine to deploy triggered events for customers. We have a team of twelve developers and our deployments have 1,000 to 2,000 customers during peak times.
What is most valuable?
The solution runs on the latest cloud technology so it is easy to deploy cloud-native projects.
The solution is very useful for managing triggered events.
What needs improvement?
It can be a bit difficult to switch between accounts when creating services for customers.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is cloud-based so of course it is stable as long as the cloud is available.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
We have not needed technical support. We utilize available documents that contain content for solving any issues.
How was the initial setup?
The solution is serverless computing so there is no setup. You just launch the service, write your code, and run it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is part of the AWS subscription model that is paid annually. There is no charge for monthly usage.
There are many calculation criteria for AWS services or licenses. It is difficult to say whether the solution reasonably priced or expensive. Each company weighs price against the benefits and efficiencies provided by the solution.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
AWS is the pioneer of cloud computing and they lead the industry in innovations. Other providers follow in AWS' footsteps to implement similar features and service levels.
AWS has differentiated the use cases for serverless computing. Lambda is used for basic capabilities like triggered events and Fargate is used for extended capabilities.
I started using Lambda for a specific use case and I continue to use Lambda and Fargate for use cases as recommended by AWS.
What other advice do I have?
I definitely recommend the solution and rate it a ten 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)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Serverless platform that makes the administration of code and other Amazon products seamless
Pros and Cons
- "Lambda makes the administration of all our services related to Amazon really easy."
- "The metrics and reporting for this solution could be improved."
- "From a stability perspective, I would rate it a seven out of ten. There is some room for improvement when it comes to stability of the features."
What is most valuable?
Lambda makes the administration of all our services related to Amazon really easy.
What needs improvement?
The metrics and reporting for this solution could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution since 2017.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
From a stability perspective, I would rate it a seven out of ten. There is some room for improvement when it comes to stability of the features.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This is a scalable solution. I would rate it a nine out of ten in this regard.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is complex.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others. Overall, the solution has improved since we started using it in 2017.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
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