Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 18 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) AWS Lambda and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).

While all the other aforementioned cloud competitors support JavaScript, Azure Functions adds C#, Python, PHP and F#, IBM's OpenWhisk adds Swift and the Cloud Functions beta offers only JavaScript.

Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, “function-as-a-service” platforms such as Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions ...

When Amazon introduced AWS Lambda in 2015, the notion of serverless computing was relatively unknown. It enables developers to deliver software without having to manage a server to do it. Instead ...

AWS Lambda has played a pivotal role in shaping the cloud computing landscape, but its evolution is far from over.