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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by Wintereise on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:49PM (#18564402)
Mostly due to being forced. For example: serverless aurora forces a VPC on you.

With delays as bad as 8+ seconds for ENI attachment, this is a significant holdback (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/lambda-vpc-cold-starts-a-lat...)

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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by zwily on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:16PM (#18565095)
I believe you can now use Aurora Serverless outside of a VPC by using the new Data API endpoint.
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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by Wintereise on Thursday November 29, 2018 @07:32PM (#18565571)
You indeed can, but it's beta (us-east-1 only at the moment) and leaves a lot to be desired (https://www.jeremydaly.com/aurora-serverless-data-api-a-firs...)
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Re:New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Shar... by k__ on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:05PM (#18565011)
Ah okay, I never thought about using an SQL DB.
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