[claudiusd]

Completely agree. Most of the criticism I've seen comes from people who don't have a good grasp of the platform or tools, or haven't adapted their style to the "serverless mindset".

There's definitely a new technique I've had to teach myself in order to build serverless systems effectively. Today I'm getting great results from the approach.

[Dunedan]

Yes, absolutely. And to be honest to get started with it for a software developer which doesn't have any "cloud" experience is pretty rough. Suddenly that developer needs to have a understanding of AWS in general, IAM, CloudFormation and all the services which can be utilized to avoid having to write custom code. It's a steep and long learning curve.

[s_fischer]

Fully agree. The problem gets even worse at bigger orgs where there's a separate, security oriented, team which is responsible for setting/managing IAM roles and KMS keys. I think the AWS ecosystem can be very discouraging for younger engineers in these situations. A innovative PoC in your downtime seems a lot more daunting when you need to learn about 4-5 AWS services that are unrelated to code execution and you have make a request to devops for a new IAM role just to locally test out a prototype that you built over the weekend.

[zerubeus]

I'm just really sad reading all this comments, knowing that some people will take the decision based on them, PLEASE DON'T, most of the commenters have no idea about what they are talking about.