[theamk]

Re Lambda, I think the closest analogy is renting unfurnished office.

When our company moved into next office, it had bare walls with old ugly wallpaper. We paid for the new wallpaper, carpet, interior walls, wiring, etc... And we also kept paying the rent to the building owner, and were at their mercy when they eventually decided to stop renting out that space.

Even then, this made perfect sense for business. All-new construction would have been way longer and more expensive, even taking limited lease time in the account. Why would software equivalent of this (Lambda) be different?

[jondubois]

>> bare walls with old ugly wallpaper

With Lambda, it's more like no walls at all... The land just comes with a concrete foundation but you have to build the walls and roof yourself.

[swagasaurus-rex]

Running your own servers doesn't require you to bid for sparse plots of land, like constructing your own office space does.