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Updated 13th October 2025
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SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER
30B + USD, IT ServicesFAVORABLE
“Highly scalable serverless platform that accelerates delivery, but requires strong governance at scale.”
AWS Lambda has been a key enabler for building scalable, event-driven services without the overhead of managing infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly into the wider AWS ecosystem, allowing us to move quickly, automate workflows, and focus on delivering value rather than maintaining servers. Reliability and scalability have been consistently strong.
Director of IT
<50M USD, SoftwareCRITICAL
“AWS Infrastructure Setup Simplifies Management But Presents Higher Costs and Challenges”
Great to have infra sorted by aws, but lots of learning required to get it to work, plus more pricey than expected
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.
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Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
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- SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER10B+ USDIT ServicesReview Source
Highly scalable serverless platform that accelerates delivery, but requires strong governance at scale.
AWS Lambda has been a key enabler for building scalable, event-driven services without the overhead of managing infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly into the wider AWS ecosystem, allowing us to move quickly, automate workflows, and focus on delivering value rather than maintaining servers. Reliability and scalability have been consistently strong. - Engineer<50M USDFinance (non-banking)Review Source
Amazon Lambda Enables Serverless Solutions Without Manual Server Management
this is a great thing which allow users to implement serverless solutions - Software Developer50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
Once wrangled and understood, an invaluable tool for scaling.
Lambda has some quirks that serve as gotchas for new developers, and it tends to be fiddly to deduce typing for ingress. This often has more to do with Cloudfront. However, when over those hurdles, it is a big value unlock. - EngineerGov't/PS/EdGovernmentReview Source
Minimal Infrastructure Enables Rapid Event Driven System Development With Lambda
Lambda provides a way to write useful automations, either by exposing functions as webhooks or reacting to events within an AWS estate. Given the simple nature of deploying, it proivdes a way to quickly prototype and iterate on ideas. - ENGINEER10B+ USDBankingReview Source
AWS Lambda: Powerful Serverless Computing with Minor Performance and Operational Trade-Offs
AWS Lambda is based on serverless architecture and has excellent scalability, cost efficiency and seamless integration with other AWS services/products but cold starts can occasionally cause issues with the performance.
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