Since 2014, the serverless model has taken off, and every major cloud provider has introduced its flavor of an FaaS service: Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and IBM Cloud Functions, to name a few.
Serverless compute brings unlimited scale and high availability to every company in the world, from small startups to multinational corporations. At least, that’s the vision of Amazon and Microsoft, today’s biggest cloud vendors.
The article then compares:
- Hosting p[lans
- Configurability
- Programming languages
- Concurrency and Isolation
- Cost
- Performance and scalability
- Orchestrations
… and much more. AWS Lambda and Azure Functions are similar services, but the devil is in the details—and virtually every angle shows some essential distinctions between the two. Good read!
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