This thread: https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C046T6T9U/p1663365806280429 seems to show that our docs for deploying lambdas via docker containers (as opposed to zip uploads) is incorrect. I wanted to see if the author was around and had any idea what was going in here.

In short, our example Dockerfile pretty directly contradicts the docs we link at AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-python.html

Perhaps those Amazon docs have changed since our docs were introduced?

I didn’t write that, and was only dimly aware that we claimed to support container image lambdas

But if I squint I can sort-of see why what we documented might be expected to work

It continues to be a problem that we don't have much expertise in many of the tools Pants supports.

Even if we get our hands dirty and do that, we've still sold people short I think. I think you were looking at perf of lambdex and if we really want to give people the idea we have their backs, we should probably be detailing all that. Here's the 4 ways you could go {lambdex / container, unzipped lambdex / container , venv / container, lamdex / zip upload} and here's why you probably want these 2 options.

AFAICT we have no one who knows all this.

I may timebox a couple of hours to look into this properly, particularly the perf issue, which some folks have reported.

But measurement is everything

So will try some of that