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> having an EC2 based cluster where you have the resources provisioned ahead of time.

That means keeping unused or partially used EC2s up which means $$$.

It's been a while since I read such a long and detailed blog post (a 6 month effort according to OP).

> With the default limits, Lambda scales to 3 000 containers in a couple of seconds. That means that with default limits, we get 30 TB of memory and 18 000 vCPUs in a couple of seconds.

> With a legitimate workload and increased limits, as we just saw, we are now living in a world where we can instantly get 150 TB of RAM and 90 000 vCPUs for our apps

Going from 0 to 150TB instantly is powerful, but I don't think there is anybody that needs that.

It's been a while since I read such a long and detailed blog post (a 6 month effort according to OP).

> With the default limits, Lambda scales to 3 000 containers in a couple of seconds. That means that with default limits, we get 30 TB of memory and 18 000 vCPUs in a couple of seconds.

> With a legitimate workload and increased limits, as we just saw, we are now living in a world where we can instantly get 150 TB of RAM and 90 000 vCPUs for our apps

Going from 0 to 150TB instantly is powerful, but I don't think there is anybody that needs that.