[rainforest]

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]

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

[remify]

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

[JoshTriplett]

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.