Product overview — Serverless Platforms
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AWS Lambda
Regional serverless baseline for AWS-first teams building event-driven systems with deep AWS triggers and integrations.
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Who is this best for?
This is the fastest way to decide whether AWS Lambda is in the right neighborhood.
Best for
- AWS-first teams building event-driven systems with managed triggers
- Backends where integrations reduce plumbing work (events, queues, storage)
- Workloads with bursty traffic patterns that benefit from elasticity
- Organizations with existing AWS governance/IAM standards
Who should avoid
- Edge latency is the product (middleware/personalization) and tail latency is unacceptable
- You need minimal cloud coupling and want portability as a primary requirement
- Your workload is sustained, egress-heavy, and better suited to always-on compute
Sources & verification
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