Josh Kodroff

As AWS Lambda has matured as a serverless platform, there are two key ways the service has evolved:

1. New capabilities that extend the platform to support new use cases like Lambda Container support, Lambda URLs and attribute-based access control support.
2. Performance enhancements that enable Lambda functions to be more responsive and cost-effective such as Tiered compilation, and Graviton2 support are just a few examples of the investments AWS made in this space.

With each advancement, the reasons to deploy a full VM or cluster to support your application get fewer and the time to deliver value in the cloud gets shorter.

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Self-service infrastructure is the holy grail of DevOps. When platform engineering teams can empower application teams to provision their own infrastructure without needing to understand the details of configuring networking, storage, and compute resources, IT organizations can drastically increase their ability to deliver on organizational goals. The first step in this process is to codify infrastructure best practices using platforms like Pulumi and the next step is to make these best practices available in a workflow that fits into the application team’s software development tools and process.

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