This should be at the top of this thread! This is huge and fixes my #1 gripe with Lambda -- that managing dependencies is "non-standard" and you can't use tools like Docker. Plus, the 250MB limit is brutal.

This is really, really exciting!

Oh that's quite big news if you run an app that has to be deployed cross cloud.

We use very little serverless at the moment, because the three clouds we need to deploy to have infuriating differences between their execution and deployment environments. Eg. How they manage dependancies, the runtimes, how you describe and deploy each function.

Compared at least to K8 where the containers you build run just fine wherever you put them.

Wow, I haven’t read yet, but I’m very curious if this affects the size limits on the lambdas. I’ve tried to build lambdas for a small Python use case, but by the time I imported pandas and a few other libraries I exceeded the 250 mb limit and migrated to ECS/Fargate, but the startup times were much longer.

The thing you put inside the container still has to speak Lambda's API, but yes, pretty cool.

For per ms billing to matter, you probably want to limit your language choices.