Was actually just working on a Lambda function myself when I read this, though for something a good bit more complex. My reaction to this particular case is mo

Was actually just working on a Lambda function myself when I read this, though for something a good bit more complex. My reaction to this particular case is more like - yeah, I guess you could do that, but it seems a little odd. I could see it making sense depending on what your infrastructure is like. Might be handy if you're heavily into AWS and need to coordinate AWS actions with appropriate IAM roles and VPC access and such things. The auto Cloudwatch logging can be handy if you don't have your own logging set up already. But on the other hand, who's running something like a business that doesn't have better logging already set up, and better infrastructure for running infrequent tasks, or at least a few servers lying around somewhere that can run some modest Cron jobs in addition to whatever they're already doing?