AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill

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Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs
Vercel claims it's slashed AWS Lambda costs by up to 95 percent by reusing idle instances that would otherwise rack up charges while waiting on slow external services like LLMs or databases.…

This story appeared on go.theregister.com, 2025-07-31 10:29:08.
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