Lambda & Serverless

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Q1When to Choose Lambda Over a Container, and Lambda's Constraints

Choose Lambda for short, event-driven, spiky work that scales to zero, but respect its cold starts, fifteen-minute limit, memory-coupled CPU, and statelessness; keep containers for long-running, steady, or heavy workloads.

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Q2Common Serverless Patterns and When Serverless Is Not a Good Fit

Serverless patterns are API Gateway plus Lambda plus DynamoDB for CRUD, Step Functions for workflows, EventBridge for event routing, and SQS plus Lambda for async work; avoid serverless for long-running, heavy-compute, or long-lived stateful connection workloads.

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