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		thayne on Dec 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monito... I'm pretty sure GitHub actions do use a whole (though probably lightweight) VM. And I think AWS lamdas do as well, or at least used to.

jjeaff on Dec 28, 2020 [–]

Well, if lambdas are using VMs and have sub-second launch times, I don't think using a lot of github actions would cause much overhead.

Bognar on Jan 5, 2021 | [–]

This is a common misconception about Lambda and Functions. They don't always give you a fresh container/VM, but Actions does.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...

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