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		polskibus on Dec 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS Lambda pricing now per ms I wonder if this change will push more people to consider rewriting code to more memory and CPU-efficient programming platforms, for example from java/c# to C or Rust?

zingplex on Dec 1, 2020 [–]

I thought you are limited in the languages they permit, the fastest of which being Go.

floatboth on Dec 2, 2020 | [–]

No. You could always shell out to any language from node/python, but for quite a while even that is not required, lambda can directly run any binary.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws... https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-custom...

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