# Page 2 | AWS Lambda Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is AWS Lambda the right Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution for you? Explore 95 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/211010/AWS-Lambda/reviews --- AWS Lambda 4.6 (95) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/211010/AWS-Lambda/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of AWS Lambda ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 95 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Senior Data Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Power of Serverless processing AWS Lambda" May 19, 2024 5.0 Very good. Implemented a serverless data lake using event driven approach for AWS lambda. Very cool and highly recommended. Pros Easy, simple and powerful for data processing. Highly integrated with different AWS services. Very powerful for event driven architecture. Cons AWS lambda timeout is 15 mins. For long running process AWS lambda is not suitable. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sw. developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great, but needs a different mindser" April 4, 2022 4.0 Overall I have had a great experience with AWS Lambda, it is a very powerful tool and it has a lot of potential. I would definitely recommend giving it a try if you are looking for an easy way to run small pieces of code in the cloud. Pros I think the biggest pro of AWS lambda itself is that is an AWS service, this makes integrating other AWS services straightforward, SQS, SNS, Dynamodb, Appsync, APIGateway, IAM, to name a few, are some of the services I had a really pleasant experience to integrate with. Another Pro I would say is the ease of development, you can write your code in either Java, Node.js, Python or Go and deploy it easily using CDK or Serverless framework. The pricing is also very attractive, you are only charged for the time your code is running and the amount of memory you use although its a little bit pricey compared to other solutions like firebase functions or cloudfare workers. Cons The biggest cons I have noticed when using lambdas are: - Cold starts: when your function is not already running in memory and needs to be spun up, this can take a few seconds and during this time your function is not available, really discouraging the development of lambda functions in JVM languages or others that have a big runtime - Observability: while it's true that you have logs out of the box in AWS Cloudwatch/CloudTrail and Xray metrics, observability is not the greatest, for instance log text search is not something you get. Usually this is solved by adding another provider like ELK stack or Lumigo. - Vendor lock-in(if applies) : Taking advantage of all the benefits of running functions on AWS may not be the greatest idea when you care about vendor lock-in and you are looking for a cloud agnostic solution this would have an impact also in pricing as AWS is not the cheapest cloud provider. Review Source DP Darian P. Team Lead of Internal Tools Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Review for AWS Lambda" July 7, 2021 5.0 Lambda allowed us to keep our code contained and efficient. We moved from running all our API code on a single "project" hosted on a server, to running many small codebases which targeted specific functionality. The change in mindset I believe was helpful in making sure that each new endpoint we build is as fast as it could be. Pros We like how Lambda is able to be deployed and updated quickly. It allows us to spend less time worrying about server loads or accessibility knowing that it is on the cloud and reliable. Also the benefits of being ingrained in the AWS infrastructure is helpful with connecting to our other services. Cons I think the console aspects of the software could use improvements. Here are some examples: 1. The testing UI is basic. You can create test cases, but in doing so you can't even view the codebase unless you click off. I would like to be able to look at both at the same time. 2. The code editor could use some enhanced functionality of popular editors like VSCode or even google docs. Specifically, one thing I noticed is I cant do CTRL+} with several lines highlighted to tab all lines over. 3. Lambda Layers are helpful but I would like to be able to view the code inline somehow rather than just see the version of the layer i am using. It would make it easier to differentiate when your lambda layer has several dozen versions, which version I am using or need. Reason for choosing AWS Lambda We previously had a self hosted server with a pyramid python REST API. We have migrated most of our endpoints to be hosted through lambda in order to start moving all our services to cloud based. We wanted a solution that was reliable, cloud based, fairly inexpensive. Being a part of AWS which we already used for several projects also drew us in. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer AWS IoT Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy to get started, gets complicated quickly!" May 26, 2021 4.0 Lambda is one of the best services provided by amazon web services. I have been using this service for the past couple of years. You can use this service from running smaller scripts to deploying a website that can be served to thousands of users concurrently. It supports multiple languages, a developer can pick a language of his choice, plays a major role in deploying a microservice architecture in no time. Best practices specified in the documentation have to be followed diligently to avoid encountering common issues. Pricing wise it is very economical and will not burn your pockets compared to other AWS services. Pros It is easy to get started, within a couple of steps you will be able to run a highly scalable solution with API gateway and lambda. It is good for running small scripts that can complete within 15 minutes. Their documentation for this service is comprehensive, provides good examples for the developers. It is completely serverless, no extra effort needed to manage servers. Cons It gets complicated very quickly if you are using it for complex tasks like stream processing. There are some performance issues that you might encounter due to cold starts, hence keeping lambda warm is very essential. Debugging the issues through cloudwatch logs in a time-based manner can get challenging if your lambda is getting invoked multiple times in a short duration. The maximum code runtime is for 15 minutes and after that, your lambda will get timed out, so if your code has a runtime of greater than 15 minutes, you need to move to other AWS solutions like ECS fargate. Review Source Raamnaaraayan R. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Lambda Password Rotation Feature is Fantastic for my RDS Instances" December 24, 2021 4.0 1\. In my Enterprise, we use Lambda to keep in track of our Amazon RDS instance's password policy which needs to be changed once in every 30 days. 2. We set up lambda function using Python and utilize AWS Secrets Manager to store our password. 3. When the 30 days period occurs in the Secrets Manager, it automatically triggers our lambda function and changes our RDS password. 4. Since manual changing of passwords can be challenging and time consuming, automation through our Lambda function makes everything easy and cost-effective. Pros 1\. I like how I'm able to implement lambda functions with various languages of my choosing whether its Python, Java, Go, Powershell, Ruby or Node.js 2. I effectively save cost by using lambda for my deployments as I pay for the computation time during which my lambda function is running. 3. Since its serveless architecture, I don't have to worry about the underlying infrastructure or its maintenance. 4. It gives me event-based trigger which eases my deployments as it enables automated procedure based on my lambda functions. 5. It is helpful to perform various operations and resource administration activities like monitoring resource status, updating security patches, deploying applications, etc. Cons I didn't find anything to like as least abut AWS Lambda. One thing to mention is, the TTL for each lambda is 15mins so after that period so if its customizable means we will be able to do more deployments running a single lambda function. Review Source Parth P. DevOps Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Serverless application AWS Lambda" December 3, 2021 5.0 Lambda is extraordinary when you have explicit scaled down usefulness that you can part into numerous discrete capacities. Not appropriate for enormous capacities do a considerable amount. Once in a while you can divide those assignments down into isolated Lambda works that successfully get fastened together. For the situations where you can't, it's smarter to go with a standard backend. Pros It scales unendingly. We picked AWS's serverless engineering explicitly for its capacity to begin little and scale on a case by case basis. Short computational code - For those that need adaptability without keeping up with servers, AWS lambda essentially accomplishes all of this as one help. Versatility - For most lambda administrations, you are charged by run sum, insofar as run-time stays low. Cons It continually changes starting with one case then onto the next, so there is zero power over the execution climate. A Lambda based work process can be more complicated to investigate in light of the relative multitude of various capacities that might be called because of your work process. Review Source Pablo M. CTO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Serverless maked easy" September 14, 2023 5.0 Pros I can create a simple lambda function in minutes. The deployment process is pretty easy to automate. Cons For python applications, the dependencies management is a bit hard. Reason for choosing AWS Lambda AWS is the most solid name in the cloud computing market. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Jr. Software developer Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Integrate with AWS Lambda" December 14, 2022 5.0 Overall experience is rich with the instance response to custome code integrated to back end. Pros Most liked about this software is it's API integration with connectivity to database to store the important data. Cons Lease like is built in fault talaurance feature. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Devops engineer Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Most advanced serverless computing service" November 11, 2022 5.0 Its awesome, easy yo use.We can deploy the applications easily, with just a few clicks.Its managed by AWS, so we don't need to worry about o.s. , size, ram etc.Easily monitoring with cloudwatch.Most of the programming languages supported. Pros Its serverless, servers are not running up all the time, they run only when triggered.Its cheap, you need to pay only for what you have used.Its fastest, it does the computing a way faster than the other virtual servers.Its easy to use with lots of Integration plugins available. Cons The only con is number of concurrent runs is very less i.e. under 1000.For heavy applications we need more number of concurrent runs. Review Source Pawe¿ W. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "AWS Lambda for creating serverless systems" August 27, 2022 5.0 Fantastic! Pros We have decided to use AWS Lambda to move some of the workload out of the servers that were not used often to process some of the workloads. I have never worked with Serverless approaches before, so AWS Lambda was my introduction to serverless world. AWS Lambda provides API in several programming languages, so it was very easy to jump straight into implementation and write some functions. It turned out to save a lot of money, because we could stop the server that was used sparsely. AWS Lambda has consumption based model so it was very cheap and superb effective. Cons I did not find any cons. Obviously it is not possible to write big services with AWS Lambda but some of the workload can be easily moved to Lambda to save on costs and maintenance. Review Source Feterzon M. IT Engineer Oil & Energy Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "AWS Management Console for easy manage the cloud" January 28, 2023 4.0 Pros development will easy when we can do from console, this tools menu have powerfull tools for development Cons some of the command need to have time for this role apply. Switched from [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[Google Workspace](https://www.capterra.com/p/247901/Google-Workspace/) more of the Review Source Ramindu D. Software Technical Lead Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "AWS Lambda: the pioneer in serverless applications" August 10, 2021 5.0 AWS Lambda enabled us to quickly deploy and use functional code in a serverless manner, with the capability to rapidly scale out of the box. Pros AWS Lambda provides the capability to deploy and use serverless functions in a handful of programming languages, with many useful integrations with other AWS services. It enabled us to meet our performance benchmarks for large-scale applications right out of the box due to its capability for a high level of concurrency, and the integrations with AWS SQS and AWS API Gateway were particularly useful for our use cases. Cons The inherent limits set on the size of the function and the requirement of packaging dependencies along with function code has proven to be difficult at times, although these problems can be alleviated by using layers and Lambda Containers. Review Source Abhishek P. AWS CLoud Intern Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "AWS Lambda is Best for Serverless Application" April 13, 2022 5.0 Its best thing is processing speed. and it is one of the best solution for Serverless application. Pros It has the best serverless solution we can use many languages and its integration with other AWS Services is also a great point towards this product through which we can easily connect all other services. Cons It has the Limit for the cache folder which is a limitation. Time Limit on execution is one more limitation Review Source AB Anis B. Software Development Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Feature rich and easy learning curve for the developer" February 10, 2023 3.0 Lambdas have been great when used in case of lightweight computation, but needs improvement in heavy applications. Pros Lambdas support multiple languages and have clients for major AWS Tools like Opensearch, DynamoDB, SQS etc. Cons Lambda cold start is a major pain point. There have been multiple solutions given for this previously, but none of them have been satisfactory. Review Source OI Omer I. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "AWS Lambda is a powerful elastic compute capacity" August 10, 2022 5.0 Easy to set up, test, and deploy but need to be managed correctly to avoid security riks. Pros We have easily deployed AWS Lambda for various use cases and through different deployment options. It integrates well with AWS services allowing you to keep your coding and DevOps guidelines even when deploying serverless apps. The Pay-as-you-go pricing model makes it ideal for small projects or relatively small tasks that you want to execute after pre-defined events or API calls. Cons Since Lambda integrates well with AWS resources, it can be a source of security vulnerabilities in the case of an incorrect Identity and Access Management (IAM) setup. This issue is not a weakness of Lambda, but Engineers need to be cautious when setting up IAM Users and Roles to avoid this risk. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior software engineer Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "AWS Lambda is a cheap and very useful" April 13, 2022 5.0 We are using it as part of a streaming pipeline and also as a web api for downstream systems. It it working really well, except when there are cold starts, which can cause delay in the processing or timeouts on the serving layer Pros budget friendly for small to medium workload easy to deploy using AWS CDK or terraform. supports multiple runtimes for different programming languages provides monitoring and logging out of the box. Cons cold starts can be too slow if your architecture is time sensitive. It can get expensive for very high number of invocations. Review Source Julio E. System Architect Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best for Serverless" July 11, 2021 5.0 Pros We have been moving from tradicional EC2 servers into Lambda Serverless. They are soooo inexpensive, we payed hundreds and even thousands of dollars in tradicional servers, and with the same functionality in lambdas we pay $100 or $200 with more than 10,000 users. Also they are very easy to scale up for many users Cons It is a little difficult to understand the new serverless paradigm, but once you learn to design it, it is easy. In someways is difficult to maintain, because you end up with a lot of Lambdas Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Industry Principal Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great serverless computing service from AWS" April 2, 2022 5.0 Overall we use AWS Lamba for lot of our events driven automation needs and are very happy and content. Pros Event driven, support most widely used programming languages, no cost when functions not running, zero administration effort, highly scalable and available Cons There are limits on the runtime environment (disk space, deployment package, memory) that is auto provisioned. Also execution time for any function cannot be more than 15mins. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Assistant Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "AWS Lambda - Flexible Compute Option" March 15, 2022 5.0 AWS Lambda is great tool which serves various purposes on team. I have been using AWS Lambda for more than a year to process and upload data to AWS. It reduces the headache of maintenance and scalability which helps with the development. Being a serverless framework, it is easy to develop and test in local. It is being widely used in our account by different teams for devops. Pros Diverse support to runtime languages, Seamless integration with other AWS services, Heavily scalable, Execute small tasks quickly, Create functions and automate processes. Cons Not cost effective as every call to a function will be charged. Limited plugins and execution time. Review Source Simarpreet Singh A. Cloud Centre of Experience Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Run Serverless workloads here since the developer community is very strong" April 7, 2022 5.0 Love it! Use it every day! Highly recommended! Pros \-Works every time without any issues -Easy code deployment with Python -Scales very effectively -Very cost-effective for testing POCs -Medium cost for production-level workloads -The architecture videos are great and the tutorials are good -Great integration with Step Functions Cons \-Costs can get out of control if things start to fail and retry policies are repeat - Cost estimate is difficult while starting to write the code in Lambda vs servers Review Source Fabiano A. Consulente IT Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Funzioni nel cloud" March 1, 2023 5.0 Utilizzato a lavoro per realizzare un semplice backend serverless. Anziché utilizzare una macchina virtuale o altri servizi piu costosi. Pros Spostare logica nel cloud. Creare vere e proprie architetture serverless grazie a diverse funzioni (istanze lambda) collegate tra loro Cons Forse potrebbe essere semplificato l’iter di pubblicazione della funzione Switched from [Firebase](https://www.capterra.com/p/160941/Firebase/) Avevo diversi servizi della mia applicazione già istanziati/migrati su aws Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO & co-founder Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "True serverless" October 10, 2022 5.0 Pros We use AWS Lambda every minute, maybe even every second. There are multiple Lambdas running in our tech stack and architecture, connecting one service to another. Scalability and reliability are perfect. Cons Even though it's serverless, you still are required to update software for example when support for an older Node version is dropped. So you still have maintenance. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Dispute Resolution Specialist Banking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great service for AWS serverless computing" April 9, 2022 5.0 Overall we are very pleased with the AWS Landa service to implement our Event driven business processes. Pros Serverless computing, event driven, support for multiple programming languages, on-demand execution Cons Works well for event driven architecture but limitation of execution time of 15min is a blocker for certain business processes. Alternatives considered [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.capterra.com/p/204333/Amazon-CloudWatch/) Review Source Giuseppe N. Software Engineer Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "It sounds easy but it's not that easy." June 7, 2022 5.0 Pros It allows the development of very heterogeneous applications thanks to its strong flexibility. Another strong point is the price which is calculated only for the CPU time that is used. Cons It is so flexible, but just as difficult to debug if something is working correctly and you cannot establish a base cost given its way of calculating costs. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Specialist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "AWS Lambda Revire" July 11, 2021 5.0 We are happy with this as its server less and only act then its meets. Certain condition. For us giving summation email acknowledgment or trigger a new log make us very happy Pros Rather than says no it as a software, I would say it’s a function. I can use this without using any dedicated or shared compute resource. It’s very fast and need very less resource to run. Cons You need to know how to use and the way how effectively you can use it else this may come a huge billing Review Source Similar Products Featured