[sbennettmcleish]

I appreciate that AWS Lambda has been a win for various people but this case study doesn't really mention what they tried to do with scaling. Whilst 0 to 100k sounds good, they also had seemingly chosen just one scaling solution of a big instance - several smaller instances behind a load balancer which scale up/down would surely have served the same outcome?

Lambda has been sold on "saving costs" but what seems to be often neglected is the developer time spent re-jigging into a "serverless" model. Developer resources are far, far more expensive than mere EC2 instances.