How does Lambda pricing work?

AWS Lambda is a pay-as-you-go service in cloud computing. You can upload the function, execute it, and pay for the execution time. If you don't execute the function or it is idle, then you don't pay anything.

The following factors can determine the cost of AWS Lambda:

  • You will pay for the number of times the Lambda function executes.
  • It depends on the duration of each Lambda function execution. You will pay more if your function takes a long time to execute. This will encourage you to write efficient application code. The maximum timeout for a Lambda function is 5 minutes, and you will be charged in 100 ms increments.
  • You have to configure the required memory for the successful execution of the Lambda function. ...

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