yep -- the devops part is valuable on the app creator/dev's side and this architecture is very valuable on the amazon/cloud service provider's side too. The sm

yep -- the devops part is valuable on the app creator/dev's side and this architecture is very valuable on the amazon/cloud service provider's side too. The smaller the scheduled unit of code is, the more densely they can pack the workloads and make more efficient use of their system ...squeezing out the pennies at their scale makes a lot of sense. I've seen some vendor lock in comments here -- but certainly the big 3 or 4 service providers will have these features figured out soon - and seems to me some open source to schedule functions across compute will appear in no time that could be used by the smaller providers. replicating all the other features is much harder -- this is a great moat amazon has built.