Lambda Workload Fit
Lambda loses when any of these hold: work exceeds the hard 900-second timeout, traffic is steady and high (always-on containers beat per-ms pricing well below full utilization), tail latency budgets cannot absorb cold starts, the app needs long-lived state or connections such as WebSockets at scale, or it needs GPUs. Spiky, event-driven, short-duration glue is where it wins.
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Lambda loses when any of these hold: work exceeds the hard 900-second timeout, traffic is steady and high (always-on containers beat per-ms pricing well below full utilization), tail latency budgets cannot absorb cold starts, the app needs long-lived state or connections such as WebSockets at scale, or it needs GPUs. Spiky, event-driven, short-duration glue is where it wins.
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