[erikpukinskis]

Is lambda really that different from any other server technology?

It’s just a container that you have to boot and it handles web requests, right?

They boot fast, so for a low traffic site you can worry less about cold start, is there any other difference with any other containerized web server?

[travisjungroth]

Yes. In theory it would be the same but practically there are lots of gotchas. For a simple example, having a calculated cache on startup that five seconds would be fine on a traditional server but not on lambda.