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by jonnycomputer 1742 days ago
What is a serverless server?
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To oversimplify, it's running the Minecraft server software in a way that behaves like it's running on a specific server.

But in the background, it's run on a set of Amazon services. You don't have to rent a specific server for a given time period, like monthly server rental.

You just use Amazon's on-demand services (that use whichever server resources are required at the time).

Thank you for that clarification. Aside from interacting with AWS MTurk, I haven't had much experience with Amazon's AWS, so it sounded like a joke.
serverless == ephemeral, on demand servers
How is this different from “cloud”?