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First, based on my experience, they usually are able to waive this, if it's an honest mistake and from a small company. Second, you can apply for credits, you
by eranation 4y ago
First, based on my experience, they usually are able to waive this, if it's an honest mistake and from a small company.
Second, you can apply for credits, you can get at least $1,000 founders credits for AWS Activate, and if you work with any VC, you can get up to $100,000.
Lastly, note that Lambda@edge is (much) more expensive than Lambda, the tech stack I personally pick for any new product, is pure old lambda, serverless-express, and good old React / Vue for the frontend with static assets on S3 (with CloudFront and Route53 for custom domain, ACM for TLS). I'm not that familiar with NextJS but I assume it's mostly used to support SSR right? I would look into the tradeoffs of using it with non edge lambda, vs ditching SSR and using Lambda for API calls only.
- huksley 4y agoI keep my fingers crossed! We also applied for AWS Activate sometime ago, as a member of YCombinator Startup School. I would really like to deploy to regular Lambdas, they are per region and easier to monitor, but unfortunately there is no support for this in serverless-nextjs right now. Good thing about is it almost automatic - static frontend, SSR and API are deployed appropriately and work perfectly, without too much fuzz. I try to balance between bringing customer value and doing infrastructure work, and now it is clear I should have spend more time on making a better architecture.