I think a better parallel would be to compare a home-owner with someone who lives completely in air-bnb. I'd have a much easier time calling them houseless. Th

I think a better parallel would be to compare a home-owner with someone who lives completely in air-bnb. I'd have a much easier time calling them houseless. There two factors that affect it: 1. The unit of time that the rental is active for. 2. Who controls the idle time of the resource. Personally, when describing Lambda to people new to the concept, I eschew this "serverless" confusion completely by describing it as renting a server in 100ms increments for fractions of a penny. Works well for me!