> Doesn't scaling take time, though? Doesn't downloading a new docker container definition and starting it take at least as long as initializing a new lambda fu

> Doesn't scaling take time, though? Doesn't downloading a new docker container definition and starting it take at least as long as initializing a new lambda function? Yes, especially because they still don't support caching the image locally for Fargate. If you start a new instance with autoscaling, or restart one, you have to download the full image again. Depending on its size, start times can be minutes...