My main use case for Serverless is the deployment of web applications. For the deployment of web applications, I write the configurations, write the code, then execute it, and I get the lambdas deployed on AWS and all the surrounding services.
Serverless Framework (Deprecated Listing. See New Listing)
Serverless, Inc.External reviews
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
Developers have deployed web apps faster and manage infrastructure directly with confidence
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Serverless offers many best features; it is really easy to use, very developer-friendly, and has a great community.
The developer-friendliness of Serverless shows up in my day-to-day work because it is easier for developers to understand what they are doing and what they need to do.
Regarding features, it is scalable and has integrations with many things.
Serverless has impacted my organization positively, but I used it on just one project, so it is difficult to judge at the organization level. For that one project, I noticed a specific positive outcome as a time saver because not all the infrastructure needs to be done by the architects. It can be done by developers.
What needs improvement?
Improving Serverless is a difficult question because I am not deeply familiar with Serverless, so it is really difficult for me to judge. Probably they would introduce an alternative to the way they currently create the infrastructure with CloudFormation. By default, it uses CloudFormation, which sometimes can be a problem. Probably it would have an integration with something like Terraform or another alternative.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Serverless for around half a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Serverless is stable as I perceive it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Serverless is great, and I have nothing to complain about because it actually depends on the cloud that is used.
How are customer service and support?
Serverless does not have customer support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Terraform sometimes, but it was just a client's requirement.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen a return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is free, so I have no experience with costs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Serverless, I did not really evaluate other options.
What other advice do I have?
The advice I would give to others looking into using Serverless is to not be afraid and to try it. I would rate this review an 8 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Local testing has accelerated API development and reduces ongoing backend operations
What is our primary use case?
Our main use case for Serverless is to build Serverless APIs, and the complete back-end is built with Serverless. A specific example of an API or back-end workflow built using Serverless is a parts integration related to buying parts catalogs, which is a third-party integration API, and everything was built using Serverless.
What is most valuable?
Serverless offers the ability to test locally, as it can spin up a bunch of AWS resources and mock them as if they were deployed onto the cloud, allowing development locally without having to spin up the resources into an actual AWS account.
The local testing feature has helped speed up development for my team without having to wait for deployment into the cloud, and for debugging purposes, it has been beneficial to find out when things are not working properly as I can step through the code and see or log local errors.
Serverless has positively impacted my organization as it has been a good experience for the team overall because it is a new framework that we had to learn, and cost-wise, it helps because moving to Serverless means you do not have resources spinning all the time. It only uses Lambdas, and it is infinitely scalable, so you only use resources as the quota is used up or as the Lambda is invoked, with team collaboration being mostly about everyone learning something new together and giving each other tips.
What needs improvement?
I struggled with wanting to put breakpoints throughout the code and then use the debugger. At the time, I was not able to step through the code with breakpoints, so if Serverless had that support, that would be great.
The overall documentation is great, and I do not have anything else to add about needed improvements.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Serverless for about a year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Serverless is very stable.
How are customer service and support?
Our customer support experience has been straightforward as we have not really had to contact them.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we had a .NET Core back-end deployed onto ECS clusters, but when we switched over to Serverless, there is less DevOps involvement, and we take all the AWS resources we need, while Serverless helps deploy everything.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was all very straightforward and very easy to use.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment in terms of time saved. To be honest, we were using .NET as our back-end for the most part, but switching over to use Serverless made the development cycle a little bit faster, as we use one-week sprints rather than two with .NET.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Serverless, we evaluated other options, including AWS SAM, but it was mostly just between these two options.
What other advice do I have?
Our customer support experience has been straightforward as we have not really had to contact them. I would rate this review an 8.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Server management headaches have disappeared and deployment of APIs is now fully automated
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Serverless is deploying my services like API services. A specific example of how I use Serverless for my API services is that I need to create one API where I want to expose my services outside by creating that. For that, I don't have the server to deploy my application. Instead, I just create a YAML file and deploy Serverless application onto my Lambda without any server.
What is most valuable?
The best features that Serverless offers include being without the server, which itself says we don't need to depend on the server maintenance, and so we don't need to worry about these server things. This aspect has really helped my day-to-day work because we don't need to maintain the server. We have gotten rid of the headache of maintaining the server, server maintenance, memory storage, and where we host that server. All these headaches are gone now just because of Serverless in AWS.
What needs improvement?
I choose eight out of ten because to go ahead with Serverless, we need to do YAML file creation and other format file creation. So it might not be having the idea. That is the only thing that I observed.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Serverless for about three to four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In my experience, Serverless is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In my experience, Serverless's scalability is very effective, with options for whatever the memory size or whatever the scale that we want, based on the demand. During the peak demand, we can increase the scalability automatically. It can scale during the peak hours, and during the non-peak hours, it downgrades that scalability. This is really helpful.
How are customer service and support?
Whenever we raise an issue to AWS, the customer support response comes within twenty-four to forty-eight hours, as I have heard from my organization.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we used a server only before switching to Serverless. Before choosing Serverless, we actually ran our application on a JBoss server, and also we hosted some of the applications on a Pyara server as well. From Pyara and JBoss, we migrated to Serverless.
Apart from that, I didn't use any other Serverless solution.
What was our ROI?
I have definitely seen a return on investment with Serverless. From the developer perspective and coming to the money perspective, we don't need to maintain it. A lot of money could be saved, because creating a server is one thing and maintaining it for a lifetime. Now the lifetime thing, we don't need to take care of. This is really helpful.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Serverless is that you don't need to worry about the server maintenance, the servers, and where you host the servers. All these headaches go away. Definitely it's good to use. All the headaches that we have been doing for all these years can be gotten rid of, definitely.
This has been a great initiative taken by AWS. Previously, we thought that we cannot host our applications without any server, but AWS proves us wrong by creating a Serverless application, the option to deploy our applications without any server. This is a really great initiative done by AWS. I rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Very convenient way of doing non complicated things fast and easy.
* Easy Deployment Process
* Variaty of available plugins
* Community and Ecosystem
* Limitations in Complex Scenarios
* Can be tricky to achieve goals in more complicated use cases
* Non-standard workflows or unique requirements may be difficult to implement
* May require workarounds or custom solutions for complex architectures
Ideal for Proof of Concept (POC) and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stages.
"Battery-included" approach simplifies cloud resource management.
Streamlines the process of building and deploying serverless applications.
Provides an abstraction layer over cloud providers' services.
Simplifies the configuration and deployment of serverless functions, APIs, and other cloud resources.
Supports multiple cloud providers, offering flexibility in your choice of infrastructure.
Automates the deployment workflow, reducing manual steps.
Enables quick iterations and updates to your serverless applications.
Supports versioning and rollbacks for better control over deployments.
Rich ecosystem of plugins to extend functionality.
the framework for cross-vendor serverless functions
Serverless is dynamic coding at its best
Dynamic code deployments using continuous integration with the Serverless CLI and source controlled lambda functions takes the guess work out of functions.