AWS Lambda

“we use lambda/sfn/other services to process hundreds of millions of pages of data annually and it scales beautifully”

“We run a screenshot API (ApiFlash) with Chromium packaged in an AWS Lambda container image instead of Firecracker on EC2.”

“We have natively image Lambda functions in production. Work well.”

“our costs went from $6K/month (on savings plans, evemn) of ec2 to ~$400/month in lambda, sqs, and elasticache/redis costs”

“Much easier to let the lambdas run than have large running servers waiting. Autoscaling is possible, of course, but laggy autoscaling won't work”

“this is why we love AWS Lambda over ECS+Fargate”

“we used as the crux of our message scheduling and processing system”

“We use lambda at my work and we serve several million users a month. Lambda bill comes out to around 200$ a month”

“Cost-wise we're pretty bursty, so it's saved us quite a bit. Lambda runtime is money”

“we used AWS-specific managed services like Lambda, Dynamo, and SNS/SQS, which required MUCH less effort from DevOps.”

“I do currently enjoy not having to manage anything myself and I like that there's no internal abstractions”

“We moved to Lambda for our async processing, there's been a few surprises, but it's been a very good experience overall.”

“we've seen good performance at low cost”

“has taken lambda from being obtuse and glitchy to work with to quite a joy if you just lean on your framework.”

“the scaling works quite well, there is no up-front infrastructure cost”

“after a couple of years of running a couple of serverless apps that rely heavily on a few AWS Lambdas”

“Each request is handled by a lambda, and even though these are memory intensive operations we never need to worry about servers or running out or RAM”

“I'm extremely happy with how it turned out... I pay something like $1 for 40-50k transcode operations.”

“Checking in on those dozens of functions handling millions of invocations every month, and seeing them just chug along with no maintenance, has convinced me”

“AWS Lambda free minutes are well enough to run a B2B SaaS until like 300 paying customers.”

“we've been using Lambda / Step for a few years now and it's been highly robust, easy to understand”

“We use more lambdas and for more things than are generally considered kosher... one more couldn't hurt.”

“We use event-based analytics. A super easy way to do it is to create an AWS Lambda function that you can hit using a Rest API.”

“We switched to AWS serverless about a year ago (API gateway and Lambda) and there have been no real surprises.”

“We switched to AWS Lambda functions for those cron jobs and they've never failed once.”

“for certain specific situations it's brilliant and I wouldn't want to give it up.”

“Converted whole ad network to Serverless. Used Rust Lambda runtime for CPU intensive tasks.”

“You debug systems in prod with lambda just like you do with anything else - via a good logging infrastructure.”

“Creating a lambda is adding one function to your code.”

“We use both pre-process and on-the-fly depending on if we need hashes ahead of time.”

“Lambda Layers fixes so many problems! We had to hack around Lambda zip size limits.”

“We run binaries on our lambda instance with a go-based function, since Lambda allows for up to 250mb of binaries, 3gb ram and 30s max”

“I'm quite happy with the results.”

“Just like any tool, Lambda is extremely effective when used for the things it excels at.”

“keeping my code as close to the business logic as possible - which is fairly easy with Lambda.”

“We use Lambda + API GW to manage the glue between our different data/service providers.”

“We run many microservices on Lambda and it has been a pleasant experience for us.”

“We run a beta / prod system to do testing and then for blue / green, we deploy a second function and switch the API Gateway over when we are good to go. Pretty straight forward”

“I use Lambda in production as a replacement for a cron server. So far, all it does is keep my cache warm. So far, no complaints.”

“It's really awesome to work with, you just deploy a function and quit worrying about it.”

“I've used Lambda in production under pretty high throughput conditions before. It's fairly stable”

“We reduced our service server costs to 1/6th by moving from Heroku to Lambda.”