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This is a very misleading title. It is not serverless. It uses SES which stands for Simple Email Service, which is provided by (of course) servers. It's just
by lisper 6y ago
This is a very misleading title. It is not serverless. It uses SES which stands for Simple Email Service, which is provided by (of course) servers. It's just that they are servers that Amazon maintains for you. It is no more "serverless" than any other hosted email provider.
This is not to say that this is without value. Having your emails end up in an S3 bucket is tremendously handy. But it's not serverless.
- Diederich 6y agoThe word 'serverless' is certainly a bit misleading. By your definition, is there any possible architecture that is truly 'serverless'?
- lisper 6y agoThat depends on what you mean. If you mean, "Is it possible to have SMTP without a server?" the answer is no, by definition. SMTP is a client-server protocol. The same is true of IMAP and POP. If you mean, "Is it possible to have something that has an email-like UI/UX without a server" the answer is yes. But it won't interoperate with what we call email today, because that is fundamentally based on SMTP. In fact, the original email was serverless because it only worked on a single machine. That protocol is actually still in use today. Cron jobs error logging message of last resort is to send email to root@localhost, which is done without any networking at all.