> the cost to run this service would have been in the hundreds of dollars a month vs the pennies And maybe this again proves the initial comment's point. > I

> the cost to run this service would have been in the hundreds of dollars a month vs the pennies And maybe this again proves the initial comment's point. > I do agree that there is a misconception with containers taking longer than server less. I don't think either takes longer considering the current tooling available. And (the misconception) that it costs more. > AWS Lambda and MongoDB Atlas If you take a managed database with a free tier and compare it there are similarly managed databases (SQL) based with a free tier. Not really fair to say PG will cost more. This also comes down to the world is not just AWS. k8s is cheap in a lot of places and definitely not hundreds a month.