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Dollar to dollar comparisons are one way to compare these two technologies but it leaves a lot not covered. The application programming model varies greatly (so
by munns 7y ago
Dollar to dollar comparisons are one way to compare these two technologies but it leaves a lot not covered. The application programming model varies greatly (socket/port vs. event). There's also a lot more that Lambda brings to the table in terms of monitoring, logging, etc that you'd need to do work yourself to enable.
Fargate is a great product, but it doesn't completely remove all operational work to the degree that Lambda does.
- reilly3000 7y agoAgreed. For the vast majority of cases, a Lambda function is easier to ship and maintain, and most likely dramatically cheaper. I really only think the value of using Fargate kicks in compared to Lambda at around 5M+ invocations/month. YMMV based on workflow and workload.
- efi-lumigo 7y agoYou are comparing only the costs of running them, what about the cost of developers who build/debug/troubleshoot the container. As someone who is running both on Lambda and Fragate it's way harder to make things tick on Fargate