> With your numbers, that puts the total running cost at 71k, or a saving of $245k over 3 years To compare apples to apples, that hypothetical pricetag buys yo

> With your numbers, that puts the total running cost at 71k, or a saving of $245k over 3 years To compare apples to apples, that hypothetical pricetag buys you the system's max capacity for the entire period. In AWS, the invoice from using any of their serverless offerings grows wildly even when utilization stays way below the resources of that hardware bundle. For instance, let's keep in mind that AWS charges: * API Gateway per million of requests, * Lambdas per timememory used by a single call, including the time it wasted with hot and cold starts, SQS per queued message, * WAF per request through the firewall, * Etc.