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Can you elaborate on this at all? First hit within what type of time frame?

We don't yet have a committed time we'll keep you warm and it might change (<-- this is me hedges against future change :)), but it's about 5 minutes today. That's ANY function within a collection of functions running.

Can you offer any sort of guidance on what cold start times currently look like? I know it depends on how much code is being loaded and interpreted, but it's obvious you're a really dedicated PM, and I know that—as a result—you must have a qualitative sense of what the perf looks like.

For background: I maintain OneBusAway for iOS, and am investigating options for sidecar data (e.g. how delayed is a bus, is there still room on it, etc.). Ideally, this would all be part of the core OBA API, but that may not be an option. I'd just use Apple's CloudKit, but I want to be able to process incoming data and share the data between iOS and Android. Hence my interest in your product :)

I just ran a sample http triggered function after it sat around cold. It took about a second to respond with "hello world" and then under 100ms after that. Purely anecdotal. Your experience will vary, etc. Cold start is kinda par for the course with "serverless" so far. We're trying our best to minimize the time it takes to having NO servers to having a server. I think we've got some great folks on our team working to solve that.

FYI - You can reserve a VM, if you want, but then you're paying until you turn it off. It will always stay hot, though.

thanks!

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