From there, you can easily edit your Python code and quickly test your AWS Lambda functions all within the AWS Management Console. Serverless computing with Python in AWS really couldn’t be easier.

C++, Python, etc have good reasons to have lambda functions (namespace pollution, closures, etc). Note that there are anonymous methods in C#. You kids can get off of my lawn.

If it sounds familiar, it’s because AWS introduced a similar service called Lambda last year at re:Invent and in the tit for tat world of public cloud computing, Microsoft had to respond.