llama is the project being discussed, a platform for pushing work to the cloud, using Lambda to do the work.
https://github.com/nelhage/llama
My question is how much upload bandwidth this needs. The article linked here mentions it in passing, but that's always been the pain point for things like this for me.
See also llama:
https://github.com/nelhage/llama
> Llama is a tool for running UNIX commands inside of Amazon Lambda. Its goal is to make it easy to outsource compute-heavy tasks to Lambda, with its enormous available parallelism, from your shell.