If anyone is initially fooled by the naming that illusion is broken very quickly after just a few seconds of looking into it so I doubt that this was an intentional act to trick people
Lots of companies do what Amazon does. See University of Phoenix vs. ASU Phoenix campus.
Is it stupid? Yes, but advertising is generally geared toward human stupidity. More specifically, it's geared toward pointy-haired bosses who are being presented AWS Lambda™ who are thinking to themselves "well I heard a lot about lambdas, are these what my team meant?"
Is it stupid? Yes, but advertising is generally geared toward human stupidity. More specifically, it's geared toward pointy-haired bosses who are being presented AWS Lambda™ who are thinking to themselves "well I heard a lot about lambdas, are these what my team meant?"