docs: warn that AWS Lambda doesn't work

2020-04-01 16:29:37 -07:00
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@@ -202,6 +202,13 @@ Alternatives
 -  `Watchman <https://facebook.github.io/watchman/>`__ is a more
   powerful alternative to ``watchmedo``.

+AWS Lambda is not viable
+------------------------
+
+AWS Lambda and its equivalents have low limits on execution time and payload
+size, relative to OCRmyPDF's needs. As of this writing, the request/response
+payload for AWS Lambda was 6 MB, which means many PDFs will not fit.
+
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