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Re:Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog by deanCommie on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @07:37AM (#13695014)
It sounds like you're stretching to make the use case fit inside a Lambda.

Have you considered extracting the assessment functionality into an SWF activity, invoked from your Lambda via StepFunctions?

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Re:Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog by niklasrde on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:02PM (#13697113)
No, we haven't looked at SWF at all - might do some reading up on that.

We considered running it on EC2, but the economics just didn't work out for our needs (hundreds of parallel processed jobs with irregular spikes, <5s runtimes per invocation and some others)

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Re:Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog by illumin8 on Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:40AM (#13714163)
You might also consider AWS batch. It's designed for this type of use case.
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