Paper Info
Title
A Preliminary Review of Enterprise Serverless Cloud Computing (Function-as-a-Service) Platforms
Abstract
In line with cloud computing emergence as the dominant enterprise computing paradigm, our conceptualization of the cloud computing reference architecture and service construction has also evolved. For example, to address the need for cost reduction and rapid provisioning, virtualization has moved beyond hardware to containers. More recently, serverless computing or Function-as-a-Service has been presented as a means to introduce further cost-efficiencies, reduce configuration and management overheads, and rapidly increase an application's ability to speed up, scale up and scale down in the cloud. The potential of this new computation model is reflected in the introduction of serverless computing platforms by the main hyperscale cloud service providers. This paper provides an overview and multi-level feature analysis of seven enterprise serverless computing platforms. It reviews extant research on these platforms and identifies the emergence of AWS Lambda as a de facto base platform for research on enterprise serverless cloud computing. The paper concludes with a summary of avenues for further research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/CloudCom.2017.15
2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Serverless Computing,Function-as-a-Service,FAAS,AWS Lambda,Google Cloud Functions,Azure Functions,IBM OpenWhisk,Iron.io,Auth0 Webtask,Gestal Laser
Virtualization,Computer science,Provisioning,Hyperscale,Reference architecture,Cost reduction,Distributed computing,Cloud computing,Overhead (business),Speedup
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2330-2194
978-1-5386-0693-3
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Theo Lynn111622.40
Pierangelo Rosati251.43
Arnaud Lejeune320.37
Vincent C. Emeakaroha432520.40