Oddly I can’t see lambdas being enough of a cost to justify it to hobbyist such as myself.
But this is a great sign of things to come, so much energy is consumed by data centers. Then again, I wonder how much code will randomly break, plus AWS’s dependency management is literally bundle it up locally and upload a zip.
What happens if a ARM package can’t be built locally.
I much prefer using Docker containers since they added support for this. There's an established toolchain which supports things like this and it fits well into popular deployment pipelines from things like GitLab/Github.
That's true and not great IMO either, I also wish the zip wasn't necessary - in the 'bootstrap' binary case just let me upload the binary! - but in case you're not aware of layers (just guessing from 'dependencies') it can be improved a bit:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-l...
> What happens if a ARM package can’t be built locally.
An Arm package can only not be built locally if you decline to use tools that'd allow you to do so?
If your concern is more about having access to ARM hardware, CodeBuild is a reasonable option. CodePipeline is more expensive than it should be given the feature set, but CodeBuild is cheap and easy to use directly.
Alternatively, I've been intending to move some of my build to Lambda itself. Easy to bootstrap if you use an architecture independent language like Python to script your build. And if your code takes more than 15 minutes to build, should it really be a Lambda function?
My main concern if I’m using something like Numpy, and I pull my dependencies locally on my 64-bit Machine I have no idea what’s going to work once I push it up to AWS ARM.
This doesn't sound very realistic. Cost-conscious organizations would hardly consider lambdas as a reasonable option unless you're well within the free tier limits. Otherwise lambdas are far more expensive than simply handling requests directly with a service running on EC2/ECS/Fargate.
We have another product built on lambdas where the compute is cheaper than the monitoring, security tooling, etc attached to the account.
For a lot of use cases, it is cheap.
You could also run a Digital Ocean droplet for less which might make sense if your on tinkerer budget and don’t need IAM access control or VPC access.