Does every user's request to functions create a new container/unikernel?

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Hi everyone,

I am still confused if Lambda is creating and running a new container/unikernel instance for every request to the function? I see that the instance will wait for a short period of time to serve upcoming requests and then is destroyed. But, firstly how long the instanceis kept alive and waiting? secondly, can every instance run more than one function at the same time or new invocations result in creating new instances?

Best,
Mohammad

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It’ll never happen as hyperbolic as you are phrasing it. Containers haven’t 100% replaced VMs, wjhich haven’t 100% replaced running bare metal servers. There will always be use cases for all of the above.

When you see a kubernettes equivalent and/or AWS hosting mechanism for unikernals, after that we will have reached mass adoption.

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There will always be use cases for all of the above.
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