We try out serverless offerings from other cloud providers to see how they compare with AWS Lambda

Annoucing PyWren 0.3, with region-specific runtimes, better error handling, and a storage API

Annoucing PyWren 0.2, bugfix release and interactive setup script.

Annoucing PyWren 0.1, with Python 3 support, large-scale reducers, better logging, support for running on arbitray instances, and a new website!

Using Pywren to benchmark S3, we achieve over 80 GB/sec of read performance and 60 GB/sec of write performance using Amazon S3.

Can AWS Lambda be used for scientific computing ? Here we use a new platform, pywren, to achieve over 25 TFLOPS using pure python across thousands of simultaneous workers.