> I'm surprised to hear that Lambda gets costly. Is this from real experience or is it just theoretical? My impression was that Lambda saves you money by not ha

> I'm surprised to hear that Lambda gets costly. Is this from real experience or is it just theoretical? My impression was that Lambda saves you money by not having to pay for excess capacity. I delve into this in detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075634 In short, using Amazon's own pricing example, yes, it's extremely expensive for production web app workloads compared to just running an autoscaling group with 10 (!) nodes on ELB/ALB, and the pricing disparity increases as load increases. With that said, Lambda is a great fit for little tasks that will never need a whole server.