I've been looking at websockets vs short polling for an app we are building. Most of our service is being run through aws lambda, so websockets is not an optio

I've been looking at websockets vs short polling for an app we are building. Most of our service is being run through aws lambda, so websockets is not an option without running a separate service. I suspect this is a problem for many. Is it worth running an extra service to use websockets on a component of your app vs using polling. I've decided to implement polling for the first iteration, and we can always try websockets later. So, I wouldn't say "don't use polling", but websockets are a good solution I've used in the past, depends on the app and architecture.