[0xDEFC0DE]

I don't understand the prototyping angle.

Can't you just do something on your local machine?

There's stuff like dotnet new for .NET where I can just run that and have a skeleton project for a backend and I can start writing code immediately. I assume there's template creators for other languages as well.

[johnfactorial]

My use case was a prototype for an iOS app I had in beta testing. It had a tiny but globally distributed user base, and serverless was a fun thing to learn on top of being relatively quick to set up. I'm sure if I had wanted to, some dynamic DNS and a small machine in my house would've sufficed. But hey--that's future decreases in cost. :)

[itake]

If you're doing a prototype, wouldn't firebase or AWS AppSync be better options? You're going to lose a lot of time dealing with devops tasks (setting up IAM accounts, configuring storage services, etc.)