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AWS Lambda
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Lambda Functions — Free Tier | Monthly usage allowance · 1 million requests/month · 400,000 GB-seconds/month | Free |
| AWS Lambda Functions — On-Demand | $0.20 per million requests; execution duration priced separately by GB-second, memory, and architecture · 128 MB–10,240 MB memory · 1 MB increments · Additional charges may apply for other AWS services and data transfer | $0.20 a month |
| AWS Lambda MicroVMs | Compute billed per second while running, plus snapshot operations and storage; data transfer billed at standard AWS rates · Baseline memory-configured compute · Up to 4× baseline capacity · Snapshots retained for at least 1 week | On request |
As aws.amazon.com lists them, read 29 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from AWS Lambda's own pages
- Additional costs
- Using other AWS services or transferring data can incur additional charges, and VPC or VPC peering use with Lambda can also incur charges. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Compliance
- AWS says Lambda is certified under SOC, HIPAA, PCI, ISO, and other compliance programs. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Compute options
- Lambda offers Functions for event-driven code and MicroVMs for isolated code execution with state retention and lifecycle control. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Fault tolerance
- Lambda runs on infrastructure across multiple Availability Zones, and durable functions provide built-in error handling, automatic retries, and recovery after failures. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Founded
- 2006 · aws.amazon.com, 23 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Lambda natively integrates with over 220 AWS services and 50 SaaS applications. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Monitoring
- Lambda sends logs, metrics, and traces to services such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray, and supports third-party monitoring through Lambda extensions. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Performance
- Provisioned concurrency keeps functions initialized and ready to respond, while SnapStart offers up to 10× faster startup for Java and startup improvements for Python and .NET. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Runtimes and deployment
- Lambda supports Python, Node.js, Java, C#, Go, Ruby, and custom runtimes, with deployment using ZIP files or container images through the AWS Console, infrastructure as code, or CI/CD pipelines. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Scaling
- Lambda automatically scales to incoming request rates and scales down to zero during idle periods; each function can scale up by 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds until it reaches the account concurrency limit. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Security isolation
- Lambda runs functions on dedicated compute resources powered by the AWS Nitro System, and offers tenant isolation for request processing. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Usage limits
- A Lambda function can allocate 128 MB to 10,240 MB of memory in 1 MB increments, and the free tier includes one million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- What it does
- AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and manages the underlying compute resources. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Workload fit
- AWS presents Lambda for event-driven applications, isolated code execution, AI agent orchestration and durable workflows, real-time data processing, and analytics or notebook environments. · aws.amazon.com, 29 Sept 2026
Where AWS Lambda stands on Freedom251
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