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I've used serverless on small personal projects where paying for a VPS or EC2 instance would be cost prohibitive, e.g. would I really want to pay $5/mo for a sm
by shepherdjerred 5y ago
I've used serverless on small personal projects where paying for a VPS or EC2 instance would be cost prohibitive, e.g. would I really want to pay $5/mo for a small throwaway weekend project? Probably not.
But what if the cost is $.0001 per request? It becomes a very convenient way to make all of my personal projects permanently accessible by hosting on S3 + Lambda.
Even in large workloads it makes sense. Much of AWS is migrating from instances to AWS Lambda. There are some workloads where persistent instances make sense, but a lot of common use cases are perfect for Lambda or similar serverless technologies.