Are you running your Lambdas inside the VPC (and incurring huge cold-start latency), or are you running your database exposed to the public internet? I've avoid

Are you running your Lambdas inside the VPC (and incurring huge cold-start latency), or are you running your database exposed to the public internet? I've avoided using Lambda for anything that requires relational database connectivity because those appear to be the two options, and neither is viable for me.