Hello all, I’ve seen the question of using Julia in AWS Lambda come up a few times in the past, but as far as I can see without any definite solution. AWS have built out their Lambda container functionality a bit since then, so I’ve tried to simplify the process of creating Julia docker containers …

Very interesting :+1: Thanks for putting this together! You might want to bring PackageCompiler.jl into the mix to improve the cold-start times. See e.g. @dilumaluthge ’s work here: GitHub - JuliaContainerization/SimpleContainerGenerator.jl: Create container images for using Julia packages (especial…

Thanks, yes - that’s an interesting package - I’m just looking at it and trying to figure out if it would help. At the moment I have the dependencies being precompiled at the stage of creating the docker image - does it offer performance gains beyond that?

[image] harris-chris: does it offer performance gains beyond that? Yes, absolutely! PackageCompiler.jl will generate a custom system image for the Julia compiler used in the container which will remove almost all of the start-up latency. Here is a nice example: [image] Josef Heinen @…

Chris, this ia really great. Functions As A Service - remember you heard it here first !

Ok, yes, that seems like quite a dramatic improvement. I’ll look at bringing this in.

I seem to remember one issue being the size of Julia and its dependencies surpassing some limits imposed by AWS. Is that no longer the case? How did you get around that? Or did Julia get smaller?

I think I posted about those limits. But now see this announcement! As an aside, I am told that if you have an Alexa then requests to Alexa are handled by lambdas. They eat their own dog food. Alexa! Integrate this function for me for values of 0 to 2pi [image] New for AWS Lambda – Funct…

Have you checked this? https://github.com/tk3369/aws-lambda-container-julia

I think the Lambda container size limit used to be 250mb and has now been raised to 10GB (as of December last year). The images I’m getting are about 500mb so the previous limit would have been a problem.

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No, which slightly surprises me, because I did a fair bit of googling on this topic.

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