The next great evolution of cloud computing is known as Serverless.

Digital transformation propels businesses and industries forward. Organizations of all sizes—from startups to global enterprises—focus on digital transformation not only to make scaled improvements, but also to drive significant change and fully embrace the digital age.

The pandemic has jump started and pushed many organizations into full gear to digitize their business models and transform with increased business agility, resiliency, and velocity, while driving new innovation and business values for the customers.

Serverless in the enterprise, 2021
Figure 1: Organizations will continue to invest in serverless. 95 percent of users plan to maintain or increase their serverless investments during the next year. (Source: 'Serverless in the enterprise, 2021' (PDF, 1.8 MB))

The cloud continutes growing.

Increasingly, developers are moving to a “cloud native” application development approach. Serverless Computing allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers. With serverless computing, your application still runs on servers, but all the server management is done by a cloud provider like Alibaba 1, AWS 2, Azure 3, GCP 4, IBM 5 (RedHat 6) etc.

The cloud doesn’t stop growing. In fact, the growth is accelerating up. Since many businesses are forced to function in a remote environment, a large number of them have decided to adopt Cloud services to be able to operate normally. Decade‑long digital transformation roadmaps got compressed into days and weeks in order to respond to the realities of shelter in place. 95% of all companies are seeking new ways of engaging customers as a result of COVID‑19. 7.

Serverless belongs in your application development strategy

Serverless is a significant breakthrough in the IT industry and has gained popularity in the past few years. The use of serverless architecture has very quickly become an accepted approach for organizations deploying cloud applications, with a plethora of choices available for deployment. Start building your future - create next generation of efficient, flexible and cost-effective solutions by deploying serverless functions on your favourite cloud.

External References


  1. https://www.alibabacloud.com/knowledge/what-is-serverless ↩︎

  2. https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/ ↩︎

  3. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/serverless/ ↩︎

  4. https://cloud.google.com/serverless/ ↩︎

  5. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/serverless ↩︎

  6. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/cloud-native-apps/what-is-serverless ↩︎

  7. https://www.twilio.com/covid-19-digital-engagement-report ↩︎