Function as a service

Function as a service (FaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage application functionalities without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.[1] Building an application following this model is one way of achieving a "serverless" architecture, and is typically used when building microservices applications.

FaaS was initially offered by various start-ups circa 2010, such as PiCloud.[2]

AWS Lambda[3] was the first FaaS offering by a large public cloud vendor, followed by Google Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure Functions, IBM/Apache's OpenWhisk (open source) in 2016 and Oracle Cloud Fn (open source) in 2017.

  1. ^ Fowler, Martin (4 August 2016). "Serverless Architectures". Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  2. ^ "PiCloud Launches Serverless Computing Platform To The Public".
  3. ^ "Release: AWS Lambda on 2014-11-13". Amazon Web Service. Retrieved 26 February 2017.