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The idea looks good on paper but in practice it is pretty pricey and impractical. You get free sandboxing, scaling, and stateless deployment out of the box but
by Immortalin 9y ago
The idea looks good on paper but in practice it is pretty pricey and impractical. You get free sandboxing, scaling, and stateless deployment out of the box but are charged by the second. It's really optimized for simple web apps (or microservices) - think backend for form processing or resizing a picture. Anything moderately complex e.g. python scientific software is impossible due to the 50MB compressed app size limit (including all your dependencies), if your app takes more than a couple seconds of compute time, it will burn a hole in your pocket.
Usage: Algorithmic trading, Alexa voice apps, Brokerage price matching
http://KloudTrader.com http://KloudTrader.com
- ajoy 9y ago50 MB size limit can be overcome if you upload the zip package to S3 first.
- scrollaway 9y agoIt's limited to 50MB on S3. You're thinking of a much lower limit.
- dmlittle 9y agoThe 50 MB limit on S3 is on the .zip/.jar upload but you can have up to 250MB if it fits inside a 50MB zip file [1]. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html