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by hectormalot 2690 days ago
Im under the impression that lambda gets expensive if you have many requests. E.g. the story on ipify that showed 1000s of USD on lambda vs 100s on Heroku:

“Today the service runs for between $150/mo and $200/mo depending on burst traffic and other factors. If I factor that into my calculator (assuming a $200/mo spend), ipify is able to service each request for total cost of $0.000000007. That’s astoundingly low.

If you compare that to the expected cost of running the same service on a serverless or functions-as-a-service provider, ipify would cost thousands of dollars per month.”

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I'm sure that's true, but you have to be churning through quite a lot of requests to get there.

Sadly so, because I can't stand lambda!