Did I read it right you get 1 second responses? Why even bother with lambdas? A t3 nano reserved instance costs 2 bucks a month or something! Surely most folks don't anticipate 1000x scaling in minutes? Coupled to elastic beanstalk you can get reaonable scaling as well!
Might be useful for services that aren't continually used? For example, month or year end processes. Not convinced I would use SQLite for a service like that though, seeing as AWS has serverless RDS
This was just a proof-of-concept using the smallest lambdas available. I definitely would opt for a EC2 instance. Though lambda would be enough for something like a configuration service.
Is a lambda easier to configure and set up? With Elastic Beanstalk and flask (and the sample code they provide) I can get an api running in a few minutes..
Both are trivial and take only minutes if you're already familiar with them, but Lambda doesn't involve managing instances, their OSes, or making sure they scale up / down (at the instance level) the way you want.
