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Re:Ask HN: How has your experience with AWS Lambda been? by Immortalin on Friday March 09, 2018 @09:28PM (#16556761)
The idea looks good on paper but in practice it is pretty pricey and impractical. You get free sandboxing, scaling, and stateless deployment out of the box but are charged by the second. It's really optimized for simple web apps (or microservices) - think backend for form processing or resizing a picture. Anything moderately complex e.g. python scientific software is impossible due to the 50MB compressed app size limit (including all your dependencies), if your app takes more than a couple seconds of compute time, it will burn a hole in your pocket.

Usage: Algorithmic trading, Alexa voice apps, Brokerage price matching

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Re:Ask HN: How has your experience with AWS Lambda been? by ajoy on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:09PM (#16556871)
50 MB size limit can be overcome if you upload the zip package to S3 first.
Re:Ask HN: How has your experience with AWS Lambda been? by scrollaway on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:17PM (#16556898)
It's limited to 50MB on S3. You're thinking of a much lower limit.
Re:Ask HN: How has your experience with AWS Lambda been? by dmlittle on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:34PM (#16556945)
The 50 MB limit on S3 is on the .zip/.jar upload but you can have up to 250MB if it fits inside a 50MB zip file [1].

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html