The Rise of Serverless Computing: Towards a Future Without Infrastructure Management

Abstract—Emerging as a radical paradigm in cloud computing, serverless computing allows developers to deploy and run programs free from control of underlying infrastructure. The basic ideas of serverless computing, its main traits, and its rising relevance in contemporary cloud computing are investigated in this work. We evaluate the advantages and drawbacks of serverless computing including cost effectiveness, scalability, and operational simplicity by means of an analysis of market trends, technology developments, and practical case studies. We also look at difficulties such vendor lock-in, cold-start delay, and security concerns together with possible remedies. In the end, we go over future approaches including distributed serverless infrastructures, hybrid serverless models, and workload optimizations driven by artificial intelligence. Serverless computing is a necessary step towards a totally autonomous and infrastructure-free cloud environment as cloud computing develops. Keywords—Serverless Computing, Function-as-a- Service (FaaS), Cloud Computing, Infrastructure Abstraction, AI-driven Optimization, Edge Computing, Cost Efficiency, Performance Bottlenecks