I always thought "serverless" referred to AWS Lambda style services. Recently I saw it used to refer to cloud computing. Is this a common interpretation? It really took me by surprise.
I've always seen it to mean cases where the code owner is not responsible for designating or managing individual servers, but instead they just deploy their code and the cloud provider is responsible for scaling based on incoming load.
In that model things like AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions are considered serverless, but so are Elastic Beanstalk, App Engine and Cloud Run.
Managing your own individual servers in something like EC2 or Cloud Compute is definitely something I would not consider serverless, and I think most people would agree with that.
In that model things like AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions are considered serverless, but so are Elastic Beanstalk, App Engine and Cloud Run.
Managing your own individual servers in something like EC2 or Cloud Compute is definitely something I would not consider serverless, and I think most people would agree with that.