Real-world applications

An Asian oil and gas company spun out a series of products that have now become stand-alone businesses. By choosing to use the same serverless architecture across all of them, the company needed only 12 weeks and a small central team to stand up the new tech infrastructure, which was already supporting its core applications. Now the company can run a range of tasks, from complex visual-data upload and compression to drone steering, on its serverless architecture. As these businesses continue to grow, needed processing performance enhancements can be made rapidly.

A leading private-equity firm used serverless to develop an entirely new and highly configurable investor information and administration site. An application-programming-interface (API) gateway connects the new serverless architecture to the company’s legacy systems and customer data. The site can be flexibly adapted and enhanced, giving the firm the ability to easily boost the site’s performance. By using serverless, the firm was able to design, build, and launch this new digital customer tool within a few months, compared with more than a year using the traditional approach.