Lambda is the worst proprietary vendor lock-in

[nelsonic]

Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in we've ever seen in the history of humanity: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/06/coreos_kubernetes_v_world/

"Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in that we've ever seen in the history of humanity," said [CoreOS CEO Alex] Polvi, only partly in jest, referring to the most widely used serverless offering, AWS Lambda. "It's seriously as bad as it gets."

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19080875

We agree with this assessment, but we feel that in the short-term AWS Lambda is most effective way of building certain infrequently used (but high peak demand) web services.