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Are FaaS’s fundamentally aimed at those use cases?



Yes. Those are all processes that are “embarrassingly parallel” workloads. You can just point lambda to a queue for instance and it will automatically scale based on workload. When nothing is in the queue, you’re not paying for resources just to poll an empty queue.




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