We use it with node for a bunch of things like PDF generation, asynchronous calls to various HTTP services etc. I think it's excellent. The worst part about it

We use it with node for a bunch of things like PDF generation, asynchronous calls to various HTTP services etc. I think it's excellent. The worst part about it by far is CloudWatch, which is truly useless. Check out https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda for running it locally for testing btw - saved us hours!