[sgtcodfish]

As others have said, if you're gonna be reaching that kind of timeout, the use case would come under this caveat I mentioned:

> assuming the task isn't hugely inappropriate

We have a couple of cases where reasonably small files (< 100MB but it'd work with larger) need to be downloaded from one place and placed in another, potentially with an ETag check to prevent redundant uploads/downloads. Lambda is perfect for that.