> If I was an AWS exec I’d say managed runtimes are legacy, with the introduction of containers move to containers for new deploys.
If they do that they remove one of the key benefits of AWS Lambda and that's that customers don't have to care about the underlying operating system and just have to care about their function code.
And I'm sure if they'd would look at the numbers of how many AWS Lambda Functions use zip packages vs. Docker images they'd see that something like >90% use zip packages. Based on that they'd be insane to deprecate the use of zip packages.
If they do that they remove one of the key benefits of AWS Lambda and that's that customers don't have to care about the underlying operating system and just have to care about their function code.
And I'm sure if they'd would look at the numbers of how many AWS Lambda Functions use zip packages vs. Docker images they'd see that something like >90% use zip packages. Based on that they'd be insane to deprecate the use of zip packages.