Spring Cloud Function Native Images
Here’s the latest graph of memory versus billing for Spring Cloud Function on AWS Lambda. It shows the billing metric GBsec as a function of memory allocation in Lambda for two custom runtimes, one in plain Java and one using a GraalVM native image, as described recently in this blog by Andy Clement:
In both cases the functionality is identical (a simple POJO-POJO function), and they both show only the results for cold start. Warm starts, where the function was already active when the request came in, were much faster and cheaper (except for the smallest memory setting they all cost the same because there is a minimum charge for all functions in AWS). You can see that the native images start up very fast and that they are more than two times cheaper to run than the regular JVM. The fastest startup was in the 1000MB container - it only took 19ms to start the app, but it took AWS 700ms to prepare the container, so it was billed at 800ms. In fact, all of the cold starts were billed at 800ms for the native image. For the regular JVM the fastest startup was also in the 1000MB container at 300ms, but it was billed at 2200ms.