The State Of Serverless On AWS, Azure & Google Cloud In 2024
The year 2024 has well passed through Q1 now. Serverless compute started with Google App Engine 16 years ago (released on April 7th, 2008) and thrived with AWS Lambda that will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year (launched on Nov, 13th 2014). All noteworthy cloud providers offer serverless compute today. Function-as-a-Service (or FaaS in short) has won the hearts of developers and businesses alike as it allows operating at a larger scale and lower cost. The elasticity of FaaS not just rightsizes applications and saves cost, it also helps protect the environment. Unused serverless resources are shared among tenants in a cloud environment.
Serverless has come a far way for over the past decade, ultimately becoming a commodity in cloud computing. It’s time for a review of the current state. I compiled a comparison of serverless differences between Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
You can download the comparison here:
State Of Serverless 2024 (PDF; Adobe Acrobat Cloud)
In this article I will summarize and evaluate the different offerings, see how much Azure and Google Cloud were able to keep up with Amazon. Please don’t get this article wrong. There are many offerings on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Yet, this article and the comparison…
