AWS Lambda

[Steve Robillard]

I am trying to understand where AWS Lambda fits into the ecosystem. Am I correct in saying that it allows you to run a small bit of code on demand - for lack of a better phrase FAAS or function as a a service?

[Andreas Wittig]

Exactly, Steve.

I have been using Lambda in different use cases:

Event-driven applications (e.g. Upload New Item to S3 Bucket -> Lambda)

Analyze realtime-data (e.g. Incoming Data from Kinesis -> Lambda)

REST API / Backend (API Gateway + Lambda)

Scheduled Jobs to Manage AWS account

[Monica Shiralkar]

Steve Robillard wrote: for lack of a better phrase FAAS or function as a a service?

There is IAAS, PAAS, SAAS. I don't know what it FAAS.
Lambda Functions comes under PAAS only but some differences are there like it being serverless and there will be automatic scaling unlike other PAAS services.