r/serverless

14k members
r/serverless is a subreddit with 14k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses serverless, aws, lambda, security, and cloud, and they frequently recommend/review cloud provider.
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Popular Themes in r/serverless

#1
Solution Requests
: "Is anyone here looking for a FaaS alternative from a European provider?"
3 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How did the October 2025 AWS and Azure outages affect your team's productivity? What lessons did you learn?"
3 posts
#3
Ideas
: "What do you guys think of my serverless pub/sub business idea?"
2 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Serverless GPUs: Why do devs either love them or hate them?"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/serverless

#1

Serverless

: "Building a Serverless Ad Tracker: Scaling to Millions of Events and Back"
217 posts
#2

Aws

: "Aws Lambda Raises Maximum Payload Size for Asynchronous Invocations from 256 KB to 1 MB"
141 posts
#3

Lambda

: "AWS Lambda Raises Maximum Payload Size for Asynchronous Invocations from 256 KB to 1 MB"
113 posts
#4

Security

: "AWS Lambda Raises Maximum Payload Size for Asynchronous Invocations from 256 KB to 1 MB"
25 posts
#5

Cloud

25 posts
#6

Api

23 posts
#7

Architecture

22 posts
#8

Cdk

: "Embracing Complexity in Serverless • Sheen Brisals"
21 posts
#9

Proxy

20 posts
#10

Aws Lambda

: "Reliable Aws Lambda Data Pipelines with AsyncAPI Specification • Hari Krishnan"
19 posts

Products Discussed in r/serverless

#1
Heroku
4.0 from 1 review
#2
Cloudflare
4.0 from 1 review

Member Growth in r/serverless

Yearly
+1k members(8.5%)

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Last updated: August 25, 2026