[messe]

> It looks like the watchdog is simply checking for connections on a port, which is probably too low-level to handle with lambda

Not at all. You could easily check that with any of Lambda's supported languages.

[015a]

If the lambda were running on the same machine as the server, maybe, but that's not how lambda works.

[messe]

Ah you're right. I was thinking the watchdog was querying the server. I see now they're both part of the same fargate task, so it's just checking for local network connections.