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Re:AWS Lambda pricing now per ms by donor20 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:41PM (#25267540)
They would be willing to do this probably if you let them evict your entire workload from memory during the period you were not paying for it, and then were able to charge you for CPU time and some additional charge to reload workload into memory from hibernation.

Most workloads ALSO hold memory (which is a key constraint) over the entire wall clock time, and the delays and impacts/costs of hibernating out the memory and then bringing it back so you can just be charged for CPU time may not make sense.

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Re:AWS Lambda pricing now per ms by alexeldeib on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:31PM (#25268164)
They could also charge you some rate for CPU seconds + Gb-seconds of memory used? Sort of the ultimately flexible cloud platform. You could apply the same sort of thinking to other resources, but it works best for CPU/memory I think.
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Re:AWS Lambda pricing now per ms by jacques_chester on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:41PM (#25268294)
That would be ideal, as it more closely fits consumption to billing. But potentially harder for end users to reason about. AWS's bills are already notorious.
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