Why serverless
Serverless enables Synadia to build modern non-monolithic applications with increased agility and lower total cost of ownership. Building serverless applications means that our developers can focus on core delivery rather than about managing and operating servers or runtimes, either in the cloud or on-premises.
Also, Serverless applications require less application overhead. A serverless application in it’s cleanest form only exist out a couple of files and can process millions of records or request at any given time without the need of provisioning any resource.
The use cases for serverless applications are therefore endless and will fluctuate from the smallest use cases, like downsizing an image for a thumbnail to a large custom enterprise ERP solution. Synadia’s cloud architects have experience with all sizes and are more than willing to support you in your serverless journey.
The benefits of Serverless

What is Serverless
Serverless is the native architecture of the cloud that enables you to shift more of your operational responsibilities to the cloud, increasing your agility and innovation. Serverless allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers. It eliminates infrastructure management tasks such as server or cluster provisioning, patching, operating system maintenance, and capacity provisioning. You can build them for nearly any type of application or backend service, and everything required to run and scale your application with high availability is handled for you.

More technical information
AWS Lambda can be used as the control plane and logic layer for all of your interconnected infrastructure resources and web APIs.
AWS Step Functions enables you to coordinate and manage the state of the distributed components and microservices that make up your serverless application.
AWS lets you to choose from a broad set of data sources and providers to help process data and/or trigger events in real-time.
The AWS Serverless Application Model is an open source framework that can help you model and deploy your serverless applications. Application lifecycle management tools, such as AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild, enable you continuously deliver your serverless applications
AWS and its partner ecosystem provide tools that aid developers in the serverless application development process, including continuous integration and delivery, testing, monitoring and diagnostics, SDKs, frameworks, and integrated development environment (IDE) plugins.
Security, Reliability, and Scale for Enterprise-Grade
Security and Access Control
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to securely control access to your AWS resources via creation and management of users, groups, and permissions. Manage and authenticate end users of your serverless applications with Amazon Cognito. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) allows you to create virtual networks which only users with permission can access.
Reliability and Performance
AWS provides you with highly available, scalable, and low-cost services that deliver performance for enterprises of any scale. AWS Lambda, in particular, has built-in features, such as dead letter queues, and automatic retries that help reliably execute your business logic.
Global Scale and Reach
The AWS Global Infrastructure provides your applications and services with the ability to scale out globally in minutes. You can run code across AWS locations globally using Lambda@Edge, which helps you respond to end users with lower latency. It can also be run on local, connected devices with AWS Greengrass and AWS Snowball Edge.
Components of the AWS Serverless Platform
Compute
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume – there is no charge when your code is not running.
Databases
Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.
Analytics
Amazon Kinesis enables streaming data on AWS, offers powerful services to make it easy to load and analyze streaming data, and provides the ability to build custom streaming data applications. This data can then be published to Amazon S3 and queried by Amazon Athena, a serverless interactive query service for standard SQL.
System messaging
AWS managed services make it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. For interprocess messaging, users can leverage Amazon SNS as a pub/sub messaging service, and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) for message queuing.
Storage
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage.
API proxy
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
State management
AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.
Developer tools
AWS provides tools and services that aid developers in the serverless application development process. AWS and its partner ecosystem offer tools for continuous integration and delivery, testing, deployments, monitoring and diagnostics, SDKs, frameworks, and integrated development environment (IDE) plugins.
Diagnostics
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture.