On: AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory ...

[munns]

Yes, you are still limited to 15 minute maximum duration.

- Chris Munns - Lead of Dev Advocacy - Serverless@AWS

[danpalmer → munns]

Ok that's not too bad a cap. I can see that working for quite a lot of use cases that aren't serving websites.

[rainforest → munns]

Is there any potential for extending that limit? I work on a product that uses Fargate Spot as a kind-of lambda substitute to run longer-duration tasks consumed from SQS and being able to use lambda to do that would make life easier :)

[JoshTriplett → rainforest]

Likewise. Doesn't have to be indefinite; 1-2 hours would be wonderful.

[remify → JoshTriplett]

For a 1 hour process why not just launch an instance ? You can also probably use a spot instance to be even cheaper.

[JoshTriplett → remify]

Instances take longer to start up; Lambda processes requests in milliseconds or less. Lambda automatically manages a pool for you.

If you're running a predictable process and you know how long it'll take in advance, an instance may make sense. If you're running an unpredictable process, where you won't know how long it'll take until it's done, and it might be quite fast, the low startup time and fine-granularity billing helps.

[spullara → munns]

GPUs please.

[panabee → spullara]

oracle plans to ship serverless GPUs in Q12021, according to our oracle rep. hope this means amazon and google are close as well.