I’ve been consulting on contract exclusively for the last 2.5 years, and the biggest issue I’ve seen is the over reliance on AWS Lambda. People tend to go crazy

I’ve been consulting on contract exclusively for the last 2.5 years, and the biggest issue I’ve seen is the over reliance on AWS Lambda. People tend to go crazy because they are so easy to spin up, however, they quickly find themselves with a runaway AWS cost. This problem of infrastructure cost, as being significantly cheaper than development cost thought to be resolved by using hyper-scaling could providers, becomes salient once again. When your AWS spend, relative to your revenue, starts to impact your ability for additional headcount, something is really wrong. The problem with how teams I’ve worked with use Lambda is that they tend to use all the latest AWS specific features by rejecting the use of abstraction framework. This makes it hard to move shop to a cheaper provider and they instead opt to re-unite the functions into a single executable application and we’re back to an express app deployed on EC2.