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Discussion on: A Smart Service to Keep AWS Lambda Warm

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Renato Byrro

Hi Erik, that's really an issue we need to cover. Essentially, the last "get_warm" request should go out before the first one is terminated by the target Lambda.

What we can to do is benchmark the interval taken between "get_warm" requests, then multiply by the number of requests being sent concurrently. We can then pass a parameter to the target Lambdas, asking them to sleep for a few milliseconds to avoid container reuse.

What do you think about this solution?

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Erik Elmore

That's more or less what my team does, although we don't do anything as sophisticated as automatically tuning the warmer with a feedback loop.

I think it would make more sense for AWS to let customers pay a fee to keep some idle capacity running, or to at least expose metrics on it. That would at least be more simple and direct.

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Renato Byrro

Nice. Agreed about AWS as well. It could be something like Dynamo reserved capacity. I read from Jeremy Daly sometime ago that the Lambda team has no plans to release something like this, but they're looking into ways to tackle cold starts in the future.