RIP AWS Go Lambda Runtime
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is deprecating the go1.x runtime on Lambda, this is currently scheduled for December 31, 2023. Customers need to migrate their Go based lambda functions to the al2.provided runtime, which uses Amazon Linux 2 as the execution environment. I think this is a bad thing for a couple of reasons: There is no automated migration path from existing Go Lambda functions to the new custom runtime. Customers will need to manually refactor and migrate each function to this new runtime, which this is time-consuming and error-prone. This will remove Go1.x name from the lambda console, Go will now just be another “custom” runtime instead of a first class supported language. This makes Go development on Lambda seem less official/supported compared to other languages like Node, Python, Java etc. Case in point, try searching for “al2.provided lambda” on Google and see how little documentation comes up compared to “go1.x lambda”. The migration essentially removes the branding and discoverability of Go as a Lambda language, I am sure this will improve over time, but it is still ambiguous. ...