3 years ago

Part of the power of serverless is that it can easily access additional cloud services from within the same platform. Because of this, there is a tendency to use multiple services from within the same cloud provider.

Cloud providers tend to use plug-and-play style hooks and make integration of services very straightforward, so if you want to avoid vendor lock-in, it is very much so possible, it just might cost you a bit more in time to do so.

AWS Lambda has always been one of the great things to shout about, and arguably one of the more popular elements of serverless architecture, the real reason to adopt serverless is so that you: The tradeoff for serverless is usually worth the investment.

The whole point of adopting the serverless approach is so more time can be spent impacting users of the infrastructure by helping to build more robust and reliable solutions.