Not the parent, but I assume he means an application that itself takes in 1000 requests per day. At the free tier your options include, on a monthly basis: *

Not the parent, but I assume he means an application that itself takes in 1000 requests per day. At the free tier your options include, on a monthly basis: * a single EC2 t2.nano box with 0.5gb memory and 1vcpu * 1,000,000 requests (or 40,000 gb-seconds worth of requests) to your lambdas Assuming you're taking in less than 1m requests monthly the lambdas will handle traffic spikes much more gracefully than the small VM will; as well, since it's not an either-or proposition this also means you still have a free VM you can do something with.