Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by agonzalezro » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 9:37 AM UTC

Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda
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Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by RossM » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 10:04 AM UTC

They announced at the London summit that Java support in Lambda would be launching soon; it sounds like they're aiming to support lots of languages.

Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by kennethh » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 10:36 AM UTC

Anyone tried Azure WebJobs? How does this compare, looks like much the same?

Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by mabbo » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 11:13 AM UTC

Based on the title, I assumed this was going to be a security blog showcasing an exploit.

Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by jimmcslim » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 11:31 AM UTC

kennethh wrote: post #3

Anyone tried Azure WebJobs? How does this compare, looks like much the same?

I thought WebJobs had more of a batch/queue processing focus, whereas Lambda is realtime?

Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by vegasje » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 12:33 PM UTC

I'll be more interested once Lambda can access resources inside a VPC. There are only so many things you can process off of S3...

Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by pinkunicorn » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 1:04 PM UTC

This truly opens up a world of possibilities. My only itch in the wound is the lock into Amazon linux compatible executables. If they can run exe's compiled on a Ubuntu box, that would be awesome!

Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by justincormack » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC

pinkunicorn wrote: post #7

This truly opens up a world of possibilities. My only itch in the wound is the lock into Amazon linux compatible executables. If they can run exe's compiled on a Ubuntu box, that would be awesome!

You could run them under Wine, or use C#...

Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by ranman » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 1:36 PM UTC

pinkunicorn wrote: post #7

This truly opens up a world of possibilities. My only itch in the wound is the lock into Amazon linux compatible executables. If they can run exe's compiled on a Ubuntu box, that would be awesome!

From an executable standpoint there's not a ton of lockin -- anything running a certain version of libc should behave the same way. You can compile an executable that will work on both Ubuntu and Amazon Linux.

Re: Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda

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Post by ranman » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 1:40 PM UTC

vegasje wrote: post #6

I'll be more interested once Lambda can access resources inside a VPC. There are only so many things you can process off of S3...

There are a bunch of other events it can read from now: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-productio...

There's also the dynamodb streams preview: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developergu...

I think the future will probably be measured in GB/s.