AWS Lambda – Run Java Code in Response to Events

and this from an AWS job posting 6 months ago...

    CORTEX is our next generation platform that handles real-time 
    financial data flows and notifications. Our stateless event
    driven compute engine for dynamic data transforms is built entirely 
    in Clojure and is crucial to our ability to provide a highly 
    agile response to financial events.
    Our technology stack: Clojure, JVM, AWS tools, Sable

via https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/clojure-software-d... discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8664989

I'm working with Lambda on a personal project. It has so much potential that will be unlocked once more languages are available. For reference, executing one function 30 million times at 100ms per execution costs about $18.

neat! Interesting for high-load tasks. But regularly in day-to-day JS is so much easier to work with :).