It's great for a lot of use cases ... But unfortunately there is several important points that prevents to use this combo as a silver bullet.
API gateway is limited to 29 sec of execution, if you need anything longer you will need an EC2 instance (or ECS or fargate) to act as a webserver and call the lambda (up to 15 min), cloudfront is also not an option for this comon use case because it's limited to 180 sec.
API gateway is limited to 29 sec of execution, if you need anything longer you will need an EC2 instance (or ECS or fargate) to act as a webserver and call the lambda (up to 15 min), cloudfront is also not an option for this comon use case because it's limited to 180 sec.