As someone who's using Lambda in production today (successfully, at relatively high volume), I'd like to suggest that what most would-be Lambda alternatives mis

As someone who's using Lambda in production today (successfully, at relatively high volume), I'd like to suggest that what most would-be Lambda alternatives miss is the infrastructure piece. Talk of lock-in notwithstanding, running your code on Lambda requires minor changes at most (assuming it's already structured as a callback). The real value is not having to manage EC2 boxes via any abstraction other than the Lambda service itself. You set one knob (CPU/RAM). It does the rest. That's the part that adds value for me as a developer and an operator.