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Close. It means there's no persistent infra charges and you're charged on use. You dont run anything permanently.
by turtlebits 8mo ago
Close. It means there's no persistent infra charges and you're charged on use. You dont run anything permanently.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8mo agoIt still doesn't capture the concept because, say, both AWS Lambda and EC2 can be run just for 5 minutes and only one of them is called serverless.
- Stefan-H 8mo agoUnless the engineer takes steps to spin down EC2 infrastructure after execution, it is absolutely persistent compute that you're billed for whether you are doing actual processing or not. Whereas lambda and other services are billed only for execution time.