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Re:AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints by discodave on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:36PM (#30937716)
I've never seen (healthy) fleets with average CPU utilization above 70-80%. That includes several-thousand machine fleets when I worked at Amazon. Most things I've seen in my career have 10-20% utilization at best. The Lambda "premium" over EC2 is only like 30-50%, so unless your workload is super consistent/predictable, and your code/hardware is well optimized, then Lambda will likely win on price. This is even more true now that you don't have to pay for API Gateway.
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Re:AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints by recuter on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:41PM (#30937768)
I have. AdTech frequently runs close to 100%. Cryptomining style.

I'm not sure I agree, why Lambda and not AWS spot instances? Or heaven forbid, one beefy server / office warmer.

Lambda doesn't win on price it wins on flexibility.

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Re:AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints by jjeaff on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:12PM (#30939897)
As others have mentioned, one advantage is that lambda gives you the kind of uptime that would require at least 3 VMs spread across different AZs.

But then, I have been running my SaaS on a single, rented beefy bare metal server in a data center with unmetered data and have had no more than 15 minutes of downtime per year for 3 years now.

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Re:AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints by recuter on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:28PM (#30939978)
Exactly, you've answered yourself.

Also nothing prevents you from using multi zoned auto scaling group with a min/max of 1, you'll fail over to another AZ gracefully. You don't magically get 9 nines with lambda in practice either, trust me.

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Re:AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints by buzzdenver on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:50PM (#30937884)
This is relevant for CPU bound loads. Lots of lambdas do networking stuff where 90+% of the time is waiting for an HTTP download.
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