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Why does serverless matter? I use MailChimp or Sendgrid and never deal with their servers. How does this product differ/improve on what's out there? Also, why
by untilHellbanned 10y ago
Why does serverless matter? I use MailChimp or Sendgrid and never deal with their servers.
How does this product differ/improve on what's out there?
Also, why is Lambda important? I have no idea what Lambda is. It's pretty easy to use AWS SES from 20-30 lines of code in a single script to send emails, so more "Why would I use this over existing solutions?" would be helpful.
- wgj 10y agoIt shouldn't matter to the customer, but at its best, serverless can reduce ops and reduce cost. Lambda doesn't make it easier to use SES. It does make it easier to not rely on ec2 for the same workload.
- imglorp 10y agoFor low traffic volumes, lambda is better than an instance because it scales back or goes away altogether when idle, so it's pay per call really, instead of pay per instance-hour. It's probably a bad idea for high volumes. They also have some nice integrations with other AWS components like S3, dynamo and api gateway, if those float your boat. Eg trigger a lambda function if someone writes a file into S3.