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by moonchrome
1146 days ago
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The problem isn't paying for cold start - the problem is they make the low ram lambdas very very niche by CPU scaling - you can have a 256 mb web server that talks to a database easily - and that's their supposed selling point - but having it served on ~300MHz CPU is really really limiting - and they should be upfront about that. If you went to a car rental and they told you we have a cheap car that's slower when you add passengers - and then you drive it to pick up your wife and it turns out it only goes 20 km/h when your wife gets in - you would be rightfully mad. You could say "why didn't you ask for specifications" but you have certain expectations of what a car should behave like and what they gave you doesn't really qualify as a car no matter if their disclaimer was technically correct. |
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Do you need a screenshot and red box around the text or would you believe me if I tell you it is written on their lambda pricing page near the beginning ? It's also written in docs about configuring lambad functions so at this point it is PEBKAC/RTFM issue, not "them not being upfront"
And frankly it is done that way because they have standarized machines, scheduling CPU heavy/memory light and cpu light/memory heavy is extra complexity. I mean ,they should, but they have no real incentive to, as in most cases apps written in slower languages are also memory-fatter so it fits well enough
> If you went to a car rental and they told you we have a cheap car that's slower when you add passengers - and then you drive it to pick up your wife and it turns out it only goes 20 km/h when your wife gets in - you would be rightfully mad.
Getting lowest tier one is more like renting a 125cc bike than a car if anything. You can do plenty with that limit in efficient language too.