Ask HN: Viability of “Amazon Lambda” for C and/or native code?

A prominent skill set among electrical/embedded/firmware engineers is C.

With the advent of IoT, these engineers are being asked to design/write server side components for their products. However, server programming, especially scalable, elastic, low-maintenance and (server) configuration-free options like Amazon Lambda tend to favor javascript/python...

Would you or someone you know use an Amazon Lambda like service for running native functions, without having to configure/learn Docker?