[jozzas]

There are some HUGE benefits to this type of architecture (services + lambda where required) for large corporations, the main one being an insane reduction in a bunch of worthless crap that you no longer have to do:

- OS version patching, patch windows & outages, change mgmt relating to patching and reporting relating to OS patching

- antivirus, the same patching management and reporting as above

- intrusion detection / protection, host based firewalls, the same patching and management as above

- Other agents (instance health monitoring, CMDB, ...)

- Putting all this junk on a clean OS image any time something changes, re-baking and regression testing everything

This all adds up, and can be a significant cost to an organisation - team(s), licenses, management, etc.

[mathw]

That's basically why we're doing it, and we're seeing some really good costing implications from implementing various things using Azure Functions. Not perfect, but an extremely capable system, and there are things some of our teams are doing with Durable Functions that I was completely stunned by when they explained how it all works. Microsoft have some very good technology there.

The only thing I'm sad about is that you can only host it on Azure. I'd love an open standard for function-like programming and hosting.

Of course, not everything is suitable for this model, and it certainly won't be the most cost-effective or performant way to do it for everything either.