> I wouldn't be surprised if it achieves a near-monopoly for a while... Are you serious? Every major player in the market has a more or less equivalent offeri

> I wouldn't be surprised if it achieves a near-monopoly for a while... Are you serious? Every major player in the market has a more or less equivalent offering. They started appearing within weeks of AWS Lambda's launch. https://cloud.google.com/functions/ https://cloud.google.com/functions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/ https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/openwhisk https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/openwhisk There are also a number of open source projects emerging... to support migrating between providers to reduce lock-in, or to roll your own service: http://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org/ http://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org/ https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-function https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-function