Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 18 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) AWS Lambda and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).

While all the other aforementioned cloud competitors support JavaScript, Azure Functions adds C#, Python, PHP and F#, IBM's OpenWhisk adds Swift and the Cloud Functions beta offers only JavaScript.

Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, “function-as-a-service” platforms such as Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions ...