For us, lambda is great for the random junk drawer of compute load. Cron jobs; miscellaneous async jobs we'd have used something like sidekiq for in the past; i

For us, lambda is great for the random junk drawer of compute load. Cron jobs; miscellaneous async jobs we'd have used something like sidekiq for in the past; infrequently used microsevices (where cold start doesn't matter) like schema registries (where client caching means it might not be hit for days). In the past I've had "job servers" running these various things.