{"id":5757,"date":"2022-05-05T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T12:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqbsolutions.com\/blog\/?post_type=listdom-listing&#038;p=5757"},"modified":"2022-05-13T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:14:43","slug":"new-in-aws-lambda-10gb-ephemeral-storage","status":"publish","type":"listdom-listing","link":"https:\/\/aqbsolutions.com\/tech-updates\/new-in-aws-lambda-10gb-ephemeral-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"New in AWS: Lambda Supports Up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS recently announced that users can now configure up to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/about-aws\/whats-new\/2022\/03\/aws-lambda-configure-ephemeral-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 GB of ephemeral storage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for each Lambda function instance. This new feature will benefit customers running data workloads, like financial analysis, machine learning (ML) inference, or media processing. Ephemeral storage has always been a feature of AWS Lambda. What\u2019s <\/span><b>new in AWS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lambda, is the ability to configure ephemeral storage up to 10 GB!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Ephemeral Storage?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The temporary, volatile storage attached to instances, present only during the instance\u2019s running lifetime, is known as ephemeral storage. If there\u2019s any issue with the underlying hardware or the instance is terminated or stopped, the data on ephemeral storage will be lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, when using AWS Lambda functions, one could only use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/aws-lambda-now-supports-up-to-10-gb-ephemeral-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ephemeral storage of 512 MB<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for each function executed. This was regardless of memory configuration or runtime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The increased ephemeral storage brings several benefits to the table for users. Let\u2019s have a look at them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>New in AWS Lambda: Increased Ephemeral Storage with Significant Advantages<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aqbsolutions.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/27\/save-data-in-an-aws-rds-database-using-aws-lambda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Lambda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to process large files (like images and PDFs) or carry out ETL (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/glue\/latest\/dg\/author-job.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">extract, transform, and load<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) jobs on a huge dataset, or operationalize ML models, it\u2019s difficult to follow the runtime storage requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, to increase the local storage, users needed to use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/s3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon S3<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Amazon Simple Storage Service) as intermediary storage for reading or writing data at the time of execution. Alternatively, they had to mount an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/efs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EFS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Amazon Elastic File System) to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aqbsolutions.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/use-your-lambda-function-to-call-an-external-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Lambda function<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this solved storage issues, users still had to face lowered performance through<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/compute\/operating-lambda-performance-optimization-part-1\/#:~:text=The%20duration%20of%20a%20cold,test%20functions%20than%20production%20workloads.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cold start<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They also had to bear substantial extra costs for using EFS. Moreover, there was the general complexity arising from the need to manage several moving pieces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The newly introduced increased ephemeral storage serves as the solution for these problems. Owing to this feature, users are now able to configure temporary storage between <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/compute\/using-larger-ephemeral-storage-for-aws-lambda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">512 MB and 10 GB<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for each execution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this new update in AWS Lambda, users can access a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/whatis\/definition\/cloud-service-latency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">low-latency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, secure temporary file system in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aqbsolutions.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/invoke-a-lambda-from-another-lambda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lambda functions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Additionally, they now have the flexibility to reconfigure the storage, as needed, up to 10 GB.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWS recently announced that users can now configure up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for each Lambda function instance. 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