It gets the job done but the developer experience around it is awful. Terrible deploy process, especially if your package is over 50mb (then you need to get S3

It gets the job done but the developer experience around it is awful. Terrible deploy process, especially if your package is over 50mb (then you need to get S3 involved). Debugging and local testing is a nightmare. Cloudwatch Logs aren't that bad (you can easily search for terms). We have been using Lambdas in production for about a year and a half now, to do 5 or so tasks. Ranging from indexing items in Elasticseaech, to small CRON clean up jobs. One big gripe around Lambads and integration with API Gateway is they totally changed the way it works. It use to be really simple to hook up a lambda to a public facing URL so you could trigger it with a REST call. Now you have to do this extra dance with configuring API Gateway per HTTP resource, therefore complicating the Lambda code side of things. Sure with more customization you have more complexity associated with it, but the barrier to entry was significantly increased.