AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda

• CPU proportional to memory (1769 MB == 1 vCPU - study)
• Broad but limited set of available runtimes

Lambda specific configuration

• Allow function url in configuration

Lambda limits - docs

• 15 minutes - max timeout value
• 1000 concurrent instances (possible to request quota increase)

Lambda layers - docs

• Used to add dependencies (e.g. numpy, pandas) to your functions (deployed as a zip file)

Lambda container images - docs

• Alternative deployment type for Lambda. Easier to package code with its dependencies
• More customizable option than layers. Allows running code in languages not supported by Lambda (e.g. Matlab, Octave)
• Requires additional development work to create a Dockerfile and image push to Elastic Container Registry (ECR)