[fivea]

> Lambda isn't single threaded. You get a core for every gig of ram that you allocate up to 16GB.

That's not exactly true.

As per AWS, with AWS Lambda you only get a second core if you provision more than 1769MB of RAM.

The number of cores can grow up to a max of 6 with provisions of over 10GB of RAM albeit AWS does not specify how that's supposed to be mapped.

There are some empirical and highly unofficial tests on AWS Lambdas that indicate that more than 1 vCPU are allocated with provisions of over 800MB of RAM, but each of those vCPUs are capped at 50% of a CPU core.

The key factor here, and what makes AWS Lambda's nodejs runtime the absolute best runtime and the de facto standard for lambdas, is that nodejs's single-threaded event loop already buys you the ability to execute code concurrently without having to rake up a large bill and resort to arcane tricks to reign that under control.

I'd add that AWS Lambda's blog post on parallel processing in Python starts off by making it clear that nodejs is the way to go.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/parallel-processing-in-...