A new report from Datadog has found that serverless computing could be entering the mainstream with over half of all organizations using serverless on one of the three major clouds – Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
The company found in a 2020 report that while some customers were using Lambda, Amazon’s function as a service (FaaS), the other clouds lagged behind. This year’s report showed that Datadog users were using serverless tech across all three clouds, with Amazon leading the way with over 70% and Microsoft and Google each over 50%, showing that it has caught on in a big way across all of the major cloud platforms.
Another key point in the report was that companies were often using serverless technology in conjunction with containers, two technologies that seem well suited to each other. Containers often have a limited shelf being deployed for as long as needed, while serverless offers the beauty of automated resource deployment.
In fact, the report found that 20% of Lambda users were deploying Lambda functions via a Docker container. That’s a marriage of serverless and containers that maybe we didn’t envision, but it’s coming into its own. When the report looked at the growth of using this approach, it found that it grew from 0% of Lambda users using this method of deployment in January 2021 to 20% by January 2022, a trend that is on a significant upward trajectory.
