[cebert]

I think it depends on your use case and organization. My employer has traditionally built on-prem software customers run in their data centers. Everyone wants to move to the cloud now. However, we admittedly don’t have a lot of cloud experience yet. Serverless works well for us as we have a smaller but lucrative customer base (not Netflix scale). Amazon does a lot of heavy lifting for you such as 3 AZs by default, easy scaling, etc. W e provide value to our customers by understanding their domain and business logic challenges. Using serverless helps us focus on that and allows us to grow our cloud expertise without needing to manage k8 clusters or having large teams related to ops.

We have a lot of request/reply CRUD type requests that are heavier on reads than writes. We use API Gateway to manage websocket connections for us. This type of usage pattern and size of our customer base fits well with serverless.