AWS Lambda

Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.

aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing

The raw serverless primitive.

Classification

Categories: Serverless
Operating system: Managed
Use cases: API backends, Background jobs and queues, Data pipelines

Tech stack

Runtimes: Node.js, Python, Java, .NET, Ruby, Docker 3
Persistent storage: no

Pricing

Pricing model: Metered usage4
Entry price: Under $5 a month 4
Typical ceiling: $50 to $150 a month4
Billed: Monthly4
Paid: In arrears, for usage already run up5
Exit: Within a month 5
Free tier: Permanent4

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Lambda runs a handler on demand in an isolated, short-lived environment and bills per request and per gigabyte-second of execution. It is a building block rather than a platform: the database, object storage, HTTP gateway and session handling are separate AWS services assembled around it. The execution model carries hard edges — a bounded run time per invocation, a limit on deployment package size, a small ephemeral filesystem and no state carried from one invocation to the next.

The managed runtimes AWS lists are Node.js, Python, Java, .NET and Ruby, alongside an OS-only runtime for everything else and the option of supplying a container image. Any language outside the managed set arrives through a custom runtime: a bootstrap executable implementing the Lambda runtime loop, in practice supplied by a community layer rather than written by hand.

A monthly allowance of requests and compute time is included and recurs each month rather than expiring, with usage above it metered.

Identity

Ownership: Subsidiary 6
Parent: Amazon Web Services
Status: Active
Wikidata: Q21462856 1

Regions and law

Regions: United Arab Emirates, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, United States, South Africa 2

Automation

CLI: Official
API: Public
Infrastructure as code: Terraform, CloudFormation

Sources

2026-09-09: Wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21462856
2026-08-01: Regions
docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/lambda-service.html
2026-07-31: Runtimes
docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtimes.html
2026-07-31: Pricing model, Free tier, Entry price, Typical ceiling, Billed
aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
2026-08-02: Paid, Exit
aws.amazon.com/agreement/
2026-08-21: Ownership
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/

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