I've not used it much outside my own area but yes I think that's a very good use case. Particularly if there's a "process some files" part. The classic example

I've not used it much outside my own area but yes I think that's a very good use case. Particularly if there's a "process some files" part. The classic example is thumbnails for images, you can point a very simple bit of imagemagik calling code at a bucket and say "any time a file is dropped in here, create a thumbnail and put it over here" and it'll scale when you have a bunch of images dropped in and cost nothing when nothing is happening. Not perfect for all use cases, although some people do seem to enjoy running as much stuff in lambda as possible, but when it matches what you need it can be a surprisingly simple solution to quite annoying problems.