I don&#x27;t think &quot;not getting a server&quot; is enough justification.  With Gmail I don&#x27;t get a server, but nobody calls it &quot;serverless email&quot;.  A server is still involved.<p>It seems like an ill-fitting adjective even in a vacuum, but what&#x27;s worse is that &quot;serverless&quot; is commonly used to describe something that runs entirely client-side (e.g. p2p).<p>Just because AWS Lambda is a &quot;mental shift&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean that &quot;serverless&quot; is a good way to describe it.