# Elixir on AWS Lambda

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-on-aws-lambda/553>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** deployment\
**Created:** [May 9, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-on-aws-lambda/553 "2016-05-09T19:16:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![mkunikow](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/mkunikow/32/235_2.png) [@mkunikow](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/mkunikow)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-on-aws-lambda/553/3 "2016-05-10T01:13:07Z")

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Hmm interesting. So you executing external elixir process through child node module process?

> **[Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/running-executables-in-aws-lambda/)**
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> In previous posts on this blog we’ve talked about how Lambda manages container lifetimes and how you can use custom JavaScript libraries in Lambda, even native ones. In this post I cover how you can run arbitrary executables, including languages like...

I am wondering how the speed/performance/monitoring … compare to pure nodejs application.  
PS  
If you don’t like javascript you can write i purescript [Purescript on AWS Lambda](http://kofno.github.io/2015/10/11/aws-lambda-purescript.html) 🙂

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