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Discussion on: AWS Step function vs. AWS Lambda benchmark

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Christian Bonzelet

So which service is the vespa and which one the moped? :D

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Anthony Hildoer • Edited

I don't think it matters. I drive a freight train. ;-)

Lambda, and things built on top of that, are great for small/medium projects. But, once running at enterprise/Internet scale, one needs to switch to services that directly are built on top of EC2. Even Fargate managed container service is orders of magnitude more scalable (horizontally and vertically) than anything that depends on Lambda.

For me, a project crosses the border from small/medium to enterprise/internet scale at around a sustained load of 10s of API requests / second, or an SLA > 99.9%, whichever comes first. This is the moment when I see dependencies on Lambda fall apart.