Implementing Serverless Architecture: Discuss the practical aspects and challenges

Abstract

Function as a Service (FaaS) has garnered significant attention for its approach to deploying computations to serverlessbackends across various cloud environments. It simplifies the complexity of provisioning and managing resources for applications by leveraging cloud providers' capabilities, offering users an illusion of perpetual resource availability. Among these providers, the AWS serverless platform stands out, offering a novel paradigm for cloud application development, abstracting away concerns about underlying hardware infrastructure while ensuring scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.However, due to the absence of standardized benchmarks, serverless functions often rely on ad-hoc solutions for building cost-efficient and scalable applications. The development of the SeBS framework has addressed this gap, enabling comprehensive testing, evaluation, and performance analysis across different cloud providers. While previous research has explored serverless platforms among various providers, little attention has been given to AWS Lambda service's performance within the ARM64 architecture and its comparison with traditional x86 architectures.