AWS Lambda pricing now per ms

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Post by astuyvenberg » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:01 PM UTC

AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
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Post by catchmeifyoucan » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

For reference - Lambda functions used to billed at 100ms intervals. My Node.Js function usually only takes 37-40ms to run. So this is a pretty good advancement for cost savings.

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Post by yeldarb » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:19 PM UTC

Anyone know why there's a hard limit of 15 minutes for Lambda (and 9 minutes for Google Cloud Functions)? Still seems really weird to me.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:19 PM UTC

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Post by camhart » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

I've learned that AWS pricing tends to improve over time, and I appreciate it. I just recently switched from a startup offering authorization to AWS Cognito because the startup kept raising their price(s).

It's nice to see this drop, though I'm sure Amazon does it due to competition as well.

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Post by jlouis » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

Necessary change. Now writing stuff in fast languages suddenly matter in cost, changing the landscape of when these solutions might become viable for a chase.

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Post by Supermancho » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

catchmeifyoucan wrote: post #2

For reference - Lambda functions used to billed at 100ms intervals. My Node.Js function usually only takes 37-40ms to run. So this is a pretty good advancement for cost savings.

> So this is a pretty good advancement for cost savings.

For some people. Those cost savings are made up somewhere else. Ultimately, Amazon is not a loss leader.

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Post by camhart » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

Supermancho wrote: post #7

catchmeifyoucan wrote: post #2

For reference - Lambda functions used to billed at 100ms intervals. My Node.Js function usually only takes 37-40ms to run. So this is a pretty good advancement for cost savings.

> So this is a pretty good advancement for cost savings. For some people. Those cost savings are made up somewhere else. Ultimately, Amazon is not a loss leader.

Why only for some people? It always rounded up to 100ms. If your function took 101ms, it was billed as 200ms.

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Post by Smaug123 » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

Supermancho wrote: post #7

catchmeifyoucan wrote: post #2

For reference - Lambda functions used to billed at 100ms intervals. My Node.Js function usually only takes 37-40ms to run. So this is a pretty good advancement for cost savings.

> So this is a pretty good advancement for cost savings. For some people. Those cost savings are made up somewhere else. Ultimately, Amazon is not a loss leader.

… yes? I don't use AWS Lambda at all, so I don't see any cost savings. It's implicit that not everyone will see the savings.

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Post by 4lejandrito » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

I am impressed that computation is billed by the ms nowadays.

I'm an ignorant in AWS Lambda but how do you know if their ms measurement is accurate? Is there any way to verify this?