Uma análise do impacto das linguagens de programação nos custos de execução no AWS Lambda em cenários de cold start e warm start

Abstract

Public cloud computing solutions have gained visibility on the market for offering great advantages over on-premises systems. However, cloud-based management workflows also brings concerns. As well as problems related to information security and lack of skilled professionals, cost management is one of the main challenges faced by users and organizations that migrate or already have their operations on cloud. Cloud providers define variables that directly affect cost behaviors, in addition, factors such as key characteristics of programming languages can also contribute to change those behaviors. This work aimed to understand how programming languages behave in cloud services such as AWS Lambda, so that cost management is carried out more assertively and efficiently, directly contributing to the reduction of costs and financial waste when using this kind of service. The results showed that the characteristics of programming languages significantly interfere in the financial costs of execution, elucidating that the choice of a certain programming language should be considered when cost is a requirement to be met when using AWS Lambda.