I recently built a small service running on Lambda as part of a data pipeline. It doesn't get called very often, so it's well within the free tier. It's far fr

I recently built a small service running on Lambda as part of a data pipeline. It doesn't get called very often, so it's well within the free tier. It's far from core functionality, and we wanted to just stick it somewhere where we wouldn't have to worry about it. I would second what meddlepal said in a sibling comment about tooling and documentation. Everything is a little undercooked. I can see something like Apex being hugely useful here. Given the current pricing it does seem hard to imagine large-scale systems running entirely on Lambda. But I imagine that will change. I completely agree with TJ that we are headed for a new paradigm in server-side computing that looks a lot more like Lambda than Docker or Chef. We're racing towards a much higher level of abstraction. It's too early to tell if it will be an AWS product that emerges as the dominant platform for this new paradigm, or if a new player becomes dominant.