It's just marketing hype. As you noted there is no such thing as serverless. It is another architecture that forces you to use AWS Lambda and API gateway and a

It's just marketing hype. As you noted there is no such thing as serverless. It is another architecture that forces you to use AWS Lambda and API gateway and a few other services to glue everything together. The idea being that if you are just shuttling bytes back and forth then the overhead of the traditional deployment is too much and you're better served with what looks like an event bus with some transformers sitting in the middle.