[jotto]

You're right, and I agree it isn't apples to apples. I am still looking for ways to break the 150ms TLS handshake barrier (let me know if you have)

My intention was merely to point out the difference between bare/raw HTTP on ec2 vs API Gateway (which is only HTTPS).

But this comparison is in fact almost useless because the world is moving to HTTPS everywhere.

[jotto]

(almost instead of completely useless) because there's still a ~50ms Lambda penalty