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Lambda is an option, it's been a very attractive one for me.
by joshstrange 4y ago
Lambda is an option, it's been a very attractive one for me.
- jjav 4y agoAWS lambda is super cheap at tiny scale. But if you get into any real constant load, it is way more expensive than a VM. The other drawback of lambda is the flip side of having the server opaquely managed by AWS. It is so opaque you can't debug anything. At one startup we had a weird connectivity issue from lambda to RDS but it was impossible to diagnose given the lack of access so it went on for months. Had it been running in a VM, I could've diagnosed that within an hour with tcpdump and bpf et.al.