http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
(Mobile) Backend as a Service
Applications that significantly or fully depend on 3rd party applications / services (‘in the cloud’) to manage server-side logic and state.
Functions as a Service
Applications where some amount of server-side logic is run in stateless compute containers that are event-triggered, ephemeral (may only last for one invocation), and fully managed by a 3rd party.
By Amio