" I find it weird that their poster child use case is still always a reactive event like watching S3 and formatting images." Because those are the things that

" I find it weird that their poster child use case is still always a reactive event like watching S3 and formatting images." Because those are the things that need to be done in the real world, 99% of the time. Sadly, we don't all get to work on cool stuff :) But I think as more people get access to the power and find uses cases, it will get used more. The 'next' step for Lambda is serverless hosting for web-sites, something which Lambda is 'almost but not quite' ready for, the limiting factor being transactional latency, especially in some weird cases. Once they have that sorted out, I will never want to see a server again :)