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What are the limitations of AWS Glue and Lambda?

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**Glue**: 15-min DPU billing minimum—short jobs still pay for 15 min. Cold start 2–10 min for first run. Max 100K DPU-hours per account (request increase). Not for sub-minute jobs. Job bookmark has limitations (only Append mode for some sources). **Lambda**: 15 min max duration; 10 GB memory; 6 MB payload (synchronous); 256 KB (Step Functions). Concurrency limits (1000 default, request more). Not for multi-GB data; use Glue/EMR. Cold start for VPC Lambdas....

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