Serverless is the shiny new tool in the toolbox. It's great at a few very specific problems, and pretty terrible at a lot of other problems. Some people want to

Serverless is the shiny new tool in the toolbox. It's great at a few very specific problems, and pretty terrible at a lot of other problems. Some people want to use it for everything because it's shiny, and they're wrong. That doesn't mean it's not great at those tasks it's great at. Example: I have an hourly script I need to run that downloads some files. It's been running as a lambda for 3 years without failure. It's cost me zero dollars (free tier). Even if there were no free tier, it would be less than a dollar total