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With Lambda you pay per 100ms / per-1-million-requests. So, yes, it's very proprietary at the moment, but for any service that sits idle most of the time it ca
by vhold 10y ago
With Lambda you pay per 100ms / per-1-million-requests. So, yes, it's very proprietary at the moment, but for any service that sits idle most of the time it can be very cheap.
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
If you were hosting something like a little message board for your friends and family, or something you are demoing to to possible employers, etc, it'd be borderline free, but available all the time.
- jafingi 10y agoI have a SaaS running on EC2s/Beanstalk where I have a feature that a user only runs max. a few times per day (if any). It's a small Python algorithm that finds the most optimal combination in an array of items. For that, Lambda is great. We have lowered our price since migrating to Lambda for this relatively simple script.