That's exactly what it is, fancy CGI only one pays for each script execution instead of a monthly subscription. The "Oh, but it doesn't use HTTP but a pubsub ar

That's exactly what it is, fancy CGI only one pays for each script execution instead of a monthly subscription. The "Oh, but it doesn't use HTTP but a pubsub architecture" is meaningless, that's still CGI for hipsters. And you still need to use (and pay) for API gateway on AWS in order to execute Lambda scripts from the outside.