AWS Lambda Launch

Amazon Web Services officially launched Lambda, introducing the concept of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) to the broader public cloud market.

Significance

This event fundamentally catalyzed the serverless movement, demonstrating the viability and potential of event-driven, ephemeral compute, influencing all major cloud providers, including Alibaba Cloud, to pursue similar offerings.

Key facts

Date
2014-11-13
Type
release
Location
AWS re:Invent, Las Vegas, USA