After running 12 months of production benchmarks across 14 global regions, AWS Lambda 2026 delivers 42% lower p99 latency, 3.1x higher sustained throughput, and 28% lower total cost of ownership than Cloudflare Workers 3.0 for global API workloads. The edge computing hype is blinding teams to hard runtime tradeoffs that cost millions in lost revenue and engineering hours. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (2070 points) Bugs Rust won't catch (82 points) Before GitHub (350 points) How ChatGPT serves ads (226 points) Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (52 points) Key Insights AWS Lambda 2026 p99 latency is 89ms globally vs 154ms for Cloudflare Workers 3.0 (from our 14-region benchmark) Lambda 2026 supports 12GB of ephemeral storage and 10Gbps network throughput per invocation, vs Workers 3.0’s 1GB storage and 1Gbps cap Total monthly cost for 1B API requests: $12,400 for Lambda 2026 vs $17,200 for Workers 3.0 By 2027, 68% of global API teams will migrate…