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With managed runtimes it used to be you had no control. It was an opaque black box with complete vendor lock-in.

Now it supports Containers it’s a place you can run any compute you can think of as long as it finishes in 15 minutes, uses less than 10gb of memory and you want to trigger it using http, direct lambda invocation or from one of the various aws event sources such as s3, sqs, sns.

I used to avoid Lambda as it was an opaque black box. Now it’s a generic compute platform for short lived jobs using container support.