https://www.prateekthakur.dev/blog Technical writing by Prateek Thakur on cloud architecture, serverless and full-stack web development. en Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.prateekthakur.dev/blog/lambda-web-functions-vs-event-functions-vs-ecs https://www.prateekthakur.dev/blog/lambda-web-functions-vs-event-functions-vs-ecs Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT AWS Lambda now has three types of function. Here's how the new Web Functions differ from classic Event Functions, where they beat EC2 and ECS (scale to zero, no clusters, one-command multi-region), and where ECS is still the better choice (Java, WebSockets, steady high traffic). aws serverless lambda architecture