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Our startup hit a wall: Node.js Lambda functions in a VPC silently crashing mid-execution on outbound HTTPS calls, with no logs or errors. After 7 weeks of debugging and proving it wasn't our code (even AWS reproduced it), we found it's a platform failure. This post details the technical deep dive and the frustrating support experience.

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Why use lambda over cloudflare these days?

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AWS Lambda: Silent Mid-Execution Crashes in Node.js VPC Functions [pdf]

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