Serverless
In short
Serverless means running code or services without managing servers: the provider handles capacity and you pay for what runs rather than for idle machines. It suits spiky, event-driven work, and buyers should weigh cold-start latency, per-request pricing at steady high volume and how tied the code becomes to one provider.
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Latest stories
The newest Serverless stories from the last 90 days. Each one opens with our summary and a link to the original source.
From training to serving: Reflection’s Beam on CoreWeave
Reflection’s open-weight Beam model on CoreWeave spans training with Weights & Biases Models, SFT in partnership with Axolotl, and Day 0 API access on Serverless Inference in CoreWeave Forge.
AWS Transform announces Azure-to-AWS cloud-native code conversion
Today, AWS announced the general availability of application code conversion from Azure SDK to AWS SDK in AWS Transform, giving you an accelerated path to migrate Microsoft Azure cloud-native .NET applications to AWS. The AWS Transform .NET modernization agent identifies Azure service code and converts it to equivalent AWS service code. For example, an Azure Functions serverless function that…
Temporal Serverless Workers on Cloud Run: Scale workers ahead of demand
The open-source Temporal execution platform is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of modern software infrastructure, especially for orchestration in distributed systems and AI agent workloads. However, deploying and scaling workers in Temporal comes with unique challenges. Workers poll for tasks instead of serving requests, so request-driven serverless platforms can be an awkward fit. This…
Why Redshift Serverless can’t match ClickHouse Cloud for real-time analytics
ClickHouse Cloud delivered 1,996× better performance per dollar than Redshift Serverless in CostBench. We trace the gap from fresh data arriving to fast answers coming back.
Introducing Private Network Gateway
Databricks serverless compute is fully managed, intelligent, and versionless, allowing...
AWS Lambda announces Lambda Web Functions
AWS Lambda announces Lambda Web Functions, a new serverless compute primitive where your code handles HTTP requests directly. Your code listens on a port and handles requests as it would on any HTTP server. You use frameworks you already know, such as Express or Hono, with no adapters or custom configuration. This enables you to serve workloads such as AI inference endpoints, server-side rendered…
AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Databricks and Twilio
AWS Secrets Manager now extends its managed external secrets capability to include Databricks and Twilio, enabling you to automatically rotate the credentials that your data pipelines and messaging applications use to call these services. You set up rotation directly from the AWS Management Console or API without writing or maintaining any custom rotation Lambda functions. Long-lived credentials…
Amazon Redshift now supports cross-Region queries for your data lake
Amazon Redshift now supports querying Amazon S3 data lake tables located in a different AWS Region. With enhanced VPC routing, data lake query traffic between Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift stays within your own VPC. Both capabilities are powered by the integrated data lake query engine that runs directly on the compute of RG provisioned and Serverless clusters. These features are aimed at…
Earlier in the last 90 days
- Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streamsCloudflare · 1 Oct 2026
- Introducing Cloudflare Basin: an open, serverless data platform, now generally availableCloudflare · 1 Oct 2026
- Introducing Agent Droplets: everything an agent needs, one price, one billDigitalOcean · 1 Oct 2026
- Serverless Storage on Amazon EMR Serverless now supports terabyte-scale shuffleAmazon Web Services · 1 Oct 2026
- Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloadsAmazon Web Services · 1 Oct 2026
- Elastic Cloud Serverless: Another Azure regionElastic · 29 Sept 2026
- On-Demand Masked Sessions with Twilio Proxy, Voice and ServerlessTwilio · 16 Sept 2026
- Elastic announces GA of cross-project search on Serverless, enabling teams to query across all linked projects without moving a byteElastic · 16 Sept 2026
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Companies in these stories
The active companies with the most Serverless stories in the last 90 days. It counts news coverage, not quality, market share or fit for your needs.
Related categories
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Terms to know
Plain definitions of terms that come up in Serverless stories, from the Techarda glossary.
Frequently asked questions
Is serverless cheaper than containers or virtual machines?
For workloads that sit idle much of the time, usually. For steady, high-volume workloads, paying per request can cost more than reserved capacity. Model your real traffic before deciding.
What is a cold start?
The delay when a function runs after being idle, while the platform prepares an environment for it. It matters for latency-sensitive requests, and most platforms offer ways to keep capacity warm for a fee.
Does serverless mean lock-in?
Function code is usually portable, but the triggers, permissions and managed services around it are specific to each provider. Keeping business logic apart from provider-specific glue lowers the cost of moving later.
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