Lambda Function Performance

Some performance information for AWS Lambda

• RAM
  • 128MB to 10GB in 1MB increments
  • The more RAM you add, the more vCPU credits you have
    • at 1792 MB, the function has equivalant of 1 full vCPU
    • After 1792 MB your function has more than 1 CPU. And you need to use multi-threading to benefit from it.
  • If your application is CPU-Bound (computation heavy)
    • Increase RAM
  • Timeout: default 3 seconds, maximum 900 seconds (15minutes)
    • Not recommended for task > 15 minutes