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> The future is now, and it's using AWS Lambda How is this different from what Azure Mobile Services and many others have been offering for the past 2 years? T

> The future is now, and it's using AWS Lambda How is this different from what Azure Mobile Services and many others have been offering for the past 2 years? To me it seems the author is proclaiming Platform As A Service is entirely new (look, no spinning up AWS instances!) while this has been around for quite some time, just Amazon is getting into it more seriously recently.

integraton 11y ago
Lambda is a focused, specialized service for running short-lived processes triggered by events and is one of the many services provided by AWS that have formed the foundation for many companies and other PaaS providers for many years, while Azure Mobile App Service is a packaged and branded collection of services including data storage and push notifications that is similar to backend service providers like Parse and Urban Airship pre-pivot (at least one of which was built on top of AWS), and tries to offer services comparable to a subset of other AWS services including SNS (push notifications), RDS or DynamoDB (databases as a service), among others. It's also quite strange to spotlight Azure as if it's doing something at all remarkable considering the "Mobile Backend as a Service" market has existed for years and actually seems to be on the decline, at least as a standalone segment.
- Maarten88 11y ago
  I mentioned Azure Mobile Services because (as it's node-based) it can be used to implement exactly the same application as the OP, line-for-line exactly the same. A static webpage, that calls into a javascript based service, you can register a script to run in that service without any infrastructure hassle, because, well, it's a service. You are right that there are many comparable Mobile Services that can do many other things and might be branded differently, but this just adds to my point: I don't see what's new here, other than that the OP has seen the light on static webapps combined with platform services.

integraton 11y ago

Lambda is a focused, specialized service for running short-lived processes triggered by events and is one of the many services provided by AWS that have formed the foundation for many companies and other PaaS providers for many years, while Azure Mobile App Service is a packaged and branded collection of services including data storage and push notifications that is similar to backend service providers like Parse and Urban Airship pre-pivot (at least one of which was built on top of AWS), and tries to offer services comparable to a subset of other AWS services including SNS (push notifications), RDS or DynamoDB (databases as a service), among others. It's also quite strange to spotlight Azure as if it's doing something at all remarkable considering the "Mobile Backend as a Service" market has existed for years and actually seems to be on the decline, at least as a standalone segment.

Maarten88 11y ago
I mentioned Azure Mobile Services because (as it's node-based) it can be used to implement exactly the same application as the OP, line-for-line exactly the same. A static webpage, that calls into a javascript based service, you can register a script to run in that service without any infrastructure hassle, because, well, it's a service. You are right that there are many comparable Mobile Services that can do many other things and might be branded differently, but this just adds to my point: I don't see what's new here, other than that the OP has seen the light on static webapps combined with platform services.