Easy, fast development is what people want from a Function as a Service (FaaS). According to our survey, 71 percent of people using serverless architectures said that ease of development is very important when considering a FaaS offering.
Fifty-five percent said it is very important to have support from their primary cloud provider when looking at FaaS. Contrast that to the 33 percent that thinks cloud agnosticism is very important and you realize that being multicloud is almost an afterthought when selecting a product. To our minds, this proves that serverless does not worship at the altar of multicloud.
Our previous article about hosted and installable platforms shows which solutions are actually preferred. Although AWS Lambda has a wide lead, many Azure and Google customers are eager to use their primary cloud provider’s FaaS product. We believe that not having to change cloud providers is makes serverless easy to many for may people get started using FaaS. Integration with users’ CI/CD pipeline is just as important.
Less essential is integration with an IDE, indicating that developers do not need a comprehensive development environment when creating serverless applications. Furthermore, there is little demand for prewritten functions as only 16 percent said that is very important when selecting a FaaS solution. Given these findings, we do not believe cloud providers will get many new customers based on new product development efforts focused on their FaaS offerings.
Originally published in The New Stack.
