A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), with a formidable head start in the serverless computing arena among major cloud providers, is continuing to court coders, most recently with a Node.js update to its ...

Google is alpha testing a rival to Amazon's super-lightweight cloud app framework, although it only supports JavaScript for now Amazon’s AWS Lambda was a radical idea: Use snippets of code in ...