Lambda is not intended for long running jobs. It would be costly to do so. I'm using Lambda to kick off an EC2 worker running a Docker image with AWS Fargate.

Lambda is not intended for long running jobs. It would be costly to do so. I'm using Lambda to kick off an EC2 worker running a Docker image with AWS Fargate. The EC2 instance only runs for the duration of the job (which lasts from 5 to 20 minutes)