Cost Saving with Pay-as-you-go model

Customers charged based on the allocated memory and the

amount of execution time the function finished.

▪ Event-driven Architecture with Lambda

Lambda is an on-demand compute service that runs custom

code in response to events.

▪ Scalability and Availability

Lambda can instantly scale up to a large number of concurrent

executions

▪ Supports Multiple Languages and Frameworks

Lambda has native support for a number of programming

languages including Java, Go, PowerShell, Node.js, C#, Python,

and Ruby code.

Extend other AWS services with custom logic. ...

Build custom backend services. ...

Bring your own code. ...

Completely automated administration. ...

Built-in fault tolerance. ...

Package and deploy functions as container images. ...

Automatic scaling. ...

Connect to relational databases.

https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/features/