AWS Lambda Managed Instances

Need more memory/CPU for your AWS Lambda Invocations?

Then you might want to check out AWS Lambda Managed Instances.

If you want to have more customization options for the underlying hardware your lambdas run on, then this is what you are looking for.

It also unlocks the ability to use Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, which can lead to long-term savings.

As of the time of this writing, I have NOT found any instances that have GPUs. It seems a little odd that they don’t allow that.

I wonder if AWS is trying to funnel you to one of its other managed services to keep you on the platform.

Though using AWS Lambdas to manage your workload is a form of platform lock-in.

I also find it interesting that they let you run ECS tasks on Fargate so you don’t need to provision instances, while at the same time taking Lambdas, previously considered the definition of “serverless”, and letting you provision servers to run those on.

Odd design choices.

With all that said, are you considering running your lambdas on a managed instance?

If so, I would love to hear your use case.