For me a huge benefit of serverless is the ease of development speed. Google's Firebase Functions are ideal for REST endpoints, they bill by the millisecond in

For me a huge benefit of serverless is the ease of development speed. Google's Firebase Functions are ideal for REST endpoints, they bill by the millisecond instead of AWS's 100ms (I think?) pricing. If you buy into Google's ecosystem entirely they provide you a lot of functionality to get off the ground running. E.g. their (free!) auth service integrates with security around functions. In less time than it takes to look up the YAML for Nginx config you can have a proper authenticated set of REST endpoints up. Now that said all I have my CPU intensive stuff running on a fixed price VM.