AWS Lambda vs. Traditional Servers : When Serverless Actually Makes Sense "Serverless" is one of the more misleading names in cloud computing — there are still servers, you just don't manage them directly. AWS Lambda lets you run code in response to events without provisioning or maintaining a server yourself, and it genuinely changes how certain kinds of applications get built. But it's not a universal replacement for traditional servers, and understanding exactly where each one wins is more u...