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Naive question: how does his example differ from a server responding to HTTP requests, that would take a JSON event as an argument and return a json version of

by S4M 11y ago

Naive question: how does his example differ from a server responding to HTTP requests, that would take a JSON event as an argument and return a json version of: "the value was: "+ event['key1'] I suppose the AWS wins in term of set up and easiness of deployment. Anything else?

fru2013 11y ago
It differs in that you don't have to worry about scaling up that HTTP server, or pay for the machine hosting that HTTP server. With Lambda, you only pay per requests, current rate is $0.20 per 1 million requests.
- pyvek 11y ago
  Is there also any limit on machine resources that a single request can use? I'm curious about cases in which requests might need non-trivial amount of computational power.
  - zwily 11y ago
    You pay for request time too, measured in 100ms increments. And you pay more for more CPU/RAM.