[ignoramous]

In the case of the blog post at least: It is a 1,000 lambdas making 1,000 queries each.

[qaq]

Well thats very unrealistic workload

[aarondf]

Unrealistic from the Lambda side, yes! But we were just trying to generate connections to the DB, not test the capabilities of Lambda

[qaq]

sure I am not criticizing the methodology of load testing, just pointing out that at extreme high loads lambda is too expensive to use.