Serverless makes a lot of sense if you are paying the system administrator. Most of the cost for running servers I've seen is the support of those servers. Whet

Serverless makes a lot of sense if you are paying the system administrator. Most of the cost for running servers I've seen is the support of those servers. Whether it's paying DevOps or a SysAdmin team. However I found it was much too slow to meet SLAs. It takes time to provision lambdas on demand. Then again we did our POC back when Lambda first came online. I think now you can pre-provision tasks which makes things a lot faster. Lambda meets the requirement of being very low maintenance, reactive, and scalable. I'm not surprised they are charging a premium for it. You don't have to pay multiple $100k sys-admins to keep it running.