Serverless: slower and more expensive

Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive by mywittyname on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:36PM (#21051270)

Fargate is slow to spin up and can only run 50 simultaneous instances. But they can run "forever" and have much higher memory constraints.

Lambdas relatively fast to spin up and thousands instances can be run at once. But they are time limited running for at most 5 minutes and using 3GB of RAM.

You can do most of the same things with either (after all, they just execute code), but you cannot ignore their very different limitations and that they are conducive to different workloads.

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Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive by scarface74 on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:55PM (#21051499)

The limit of 50 is a soft limit - you can send a support request to get it raised and they usually respond within a half an hour. Lambda also has a default soft limit of 2000.

But, also you can have up to 4 vCPUs with Fargate as opposed to one with lambda.

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