[nexuist]

I am a huge fan of serverless, and AWS as well.

I also find it deeply ironic that their solution to cold starts is to keep the function running 24/7...

Could I include openssh and Apache in my Lambda instance? Maybe run a Minecraft server? :P

[moduspol]

AFAIK it's not a solution, it's just a workaround.

As others have said, the previous workaround was a cron event that would invoke a function every few minutes to keep it warm. This is a lot better than that.

They're still working to get cold starts as fast as possible, but this helps a lot in the meantime.

[karavelov]

Your function is frozen if there is no active invoke in progress. So no, ssh or minecraft server will not work, unless you make them communicate over Lambda invocations.

[WatchDog]

Even if it were not frozen, the idle "Provisioned Concurrency" price is still more than paying for an active on-demand ec2 instance.

[efi-lumigo]

Cold start is inherent to the Lambda model, trying fixing cold start will probably bend the model, there is no way around it