Developing Lambda is an absolutely terrible experience. Tightening the integration between CloudFormation, API-Gateway, and Lambda would really improve the sit

Developing Lambda is an absolutely terrible experience. Tightening the integration between CloudFormation, API-Gateway, and Lambda would really improve the situation. For example, a built-in way to map requests/responses between API-Gateway and Lambda which didn't involve a janky parsing DSL would be pretty nice. The strategy Lambda seems to suggest you implement for testing/development is pretty laborious. There's no real clear way for you to mock operations on your local system and that's a real bummer. A lot of things you run into in Python lambda functions are also fairly unclear. Python often will compile C-extensions... I could never figure out if there was really a stable ABI or what I could do to pre-compile things for Lambda. All of those complaints aside - once you deploy your app, it will probably keep running until the day you die. So that's a huge upside. Once you rake through the muck of terrible developer experience (which I admit, could be unique to me), the service simply works. So, if you have a relatively trivial application which does not need to be upgraded often and needs very good up-time.. it's a very nice service.