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One other thing I learned here is that lambda@edge is not actually run on the edge at all. It is forwarded to the nearest datacenter to execute. Not enough capa
by daxfohl 5y ago
One other thing I learned here is that lambda@edge is not actually run on the edge at all. It is forwarded to the nearest datacenter to execute. Not enough capacity in edges to spin up entire VMs for everything, even with Firecracker.
- mcspiff 5y agoThey do have Cloudfront Functions now for real Edge compute: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-cloudfront-functions-run-your-code-at-the-edge-with-low-latency-at-any-scale/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-cloudfront-func...
- floatboth 5y agoWhich are barely "compute", but very nice for redirect-rewrite-add-headers type stuff. Like mruby in h2o, lua/js in various nginx modules and so on. Their JS engine seems quite odd, they selectively have very modern features but not let/const o_0