Introducing Apex – Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda
I'm curious if anyone has deployed a real app at any scale on Lambda/API Gateway. So far in my experience, the default limits and throughput are far lower than would be remotely useful for a moderately busy webapp. And to hit those rates would be outrageously expensive.That may improve over time. But even more than that "serverless" is misleading. True, you don't have to personally manage the servers that are running your code, but that means that your operations team is actually inside Amazon. They have economies of scale, but that means they also don't always notice when one of their servers isn't performing up to par. More than once we've had to ask our support reps to get Lambda instances behind the scene restarted. At that point I start to wonder what the point is at all.