I have a long-term side project, SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com/ https://www.slickdns.com/) which is a DNS hosting service, and recently moved the URL monit

I have a long-term side project, SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com/ https://www.slickdns.com/) which is a DNS hosting service, and recently moved the URL monitoring feature from four self-managed $5/month Digital Ocean VMs to AWS Lambda. My monthly hosting bill for that particular feature has dropped from $20/month to $0.10. Porting the Go monitoring code to Lambda was trivial. I spent much more time trying to automate the deployment to Lambda & API Gateway and in the end gave up and just deployed it manually via the AWS console. I also recently moved the main web app from a self-managed Linode setup to Heroku. Deploying via "git push" and not having to worry about configuring or updating servers is a huge time saver. Heroku provides the best of both worlds since I can still login into an ephemeral shell if I want to interactively poke around my live Django environment.