They talk about lambdas that exceed the max runtime of 15 minutes. For a single invocation. They go to great lengths talking about cron jobs, background jobs tr

They talk about lambdas that exceed the max runtime of 15 minutes. For a single invocation. They go to great lengths talking about cron jobs, background jobs triggered by events, etc. I highly doubt the bulk of the lambdas they talk about are simple API calls. Otherwise yes, 6-7rps is peanuts, if we’re talking about API calls. And since the very first point of the article is them highlighting what goes to lambda and what does not (public api calls go to a dedicated box), I think it’s safe to say those 6 invocations/sec are definitely not API calls. TL;DR your Xeon box is their always-on api box.