erlang

Running Erlang on AWS Lambda

You can run Erlang in AWS Lambda via SCAR using the grycap/erlang Docker image, based on the bitnami/minideb:jessie one.

Usage on AWS Lambda via SCAR

You can run a container out of this image on AWS Lambda via SCAR using the following procedure:

1. Create the Lambda function

scar init -f scar-erlang.yaml

2. Execute the Lambda function with an script to compile and run an Erlang application

scar run -f scar-erlang.yaml -s erlang-hw.sh

The first invocation will take considerably longer than the subsequent ones, where the container will be cached. You can modify the script and perform another scar run.

You can also run multiple concurrent invocations of this Lambda function to perform highly-parallel event-driven processing. See the SCAR Programming Model.