Coiled: A GPU-accelerated serverless alternative to AWS Lambda

Jun 11, 2025 4 min read AWS Lambda is widely used for event-driven workloads that require quick, lightweight execution without infrastructure management. But when it comes to tasks that demand GPU acceleration, like training deep learning models, running inference on images, or performing parallel scientific simulations, Lambda falls short. With no GPU support, a 15-minute execution limit, and container image size limits, AWS Lambda isn’t designed for compute-heavy or memory-intensive applications.