This is all fair feedback and this is still early days for what Lambda and the "serverless" application space will bring. From the AWS's side we've seen a lot o

This is all fair feedback and this is still early days for what Lambda and the "serverless" application space will bring. From the AWS's side we've seen a lot of customer success in various areas from companies moving from more monolithic or 2/3 tier web apps to single page apps (SPA) + serverless backend, moving to near real-time streaming with Kinesis+Lambda, processing records/documents/images/video/etc with S3+Lambda. Alexa Skills are often powered by it, etc. Bunch of customer stories here: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/resources/#Customer_Case_Studies https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/resources/#Customer_Case_Studi... and yes lots of work (such as this release) to keep making this be the default compute platform of choice for the future. Disclaimer: AWS Serverless Developer Advocate