Serverless Framework

The Serverless Framework is a web framework written using Node.js. Serverless is the first framework developed for building applications on AWS Lambda, a serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services.^[2] Currently, applications developed with Serverless can be deployed to other function as a service providers, including Microsoft Azure with Azure Functions, IBM Bluemix with IBM Cloud Functions based on Apache OpenWhisk, Google Cloud using Google Cloud Functions, Oracle Cloud using Oracle Fn,^[3] Kubeless based on Kubernetes, Spotinst and Webtask by Auth0.^[4]

Serverless

Original author(s)	Austen Collins
Initial release	October 2015; 9 years ago (2015-10)
Stable release	4.14.0[1]  / 18 April 2025; 25 days ago (18 April 2025)
Repository	github.com/serverless/serverless
Written in	Node.js
Operating system	Cross-platform
Website	www.serverless.com

A Serverless app can simply be a couple of lambda functions to accomplish some tasks, or an entire back-end composed of hundreds of lambda functions. Serverless supports all runtimes offered within the cloud provider chosen. Serverless is developed by Austen Collins^[5] and maintained by a full-time team.^[6]

It was first introduced in October 2015 under the name JAWS.^[7]