Lambda has huge potential for very defined work load. In this case, I do not get it. As you mentioned the idea of having 3 regions with 3000 cores? Are you doing ML on K8s? Another aspect is the caching with CDN and internally, I do not get that either.

Good question, could it be the cost or at least the illusion of cost saving? I do not know but it will interesting to see how much they are saving, if they do?

Managers don't publicize mistakes and costly lessons learned. There's only going to be this announcement.

They made a big mistake riding first class on the hype train.