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Re:Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda? by covermydonkey on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:04PM (#15927027)
Perhaps you could factor in something about cold-start?

I know that in my context, this has been a key issue. Another odd one is that our organization has only certified RHEL and Cent OS running server-side code.

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Re:Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda? by illumin8 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @05:02PM (#15927571)
What exactly are your issues with cold start? This typically only affects functions that are called a few times a day, and can be solved for those functions by running a CloudWatch event that triggers your function every few minutes or so. You get 1 million free invocations a month, so this typically doesn't increase your bill.

Disclaimer: I work for AWS

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Re:Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda? by ewindisch on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:13PM (#15933779)
We have code that you can run on your AWS account for more accurate information from servers.lol based on Cloudwatch metrics. Latency and coldstart information would be totally interesting, I'll suggest it to our team!
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Re:Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda? by adjohn on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:57PM (#15927522)
Great points! We'd like to expand on this to go deeper, and these are great suggestions.
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