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by TYPE_FASTER 1319 days ago
What is the reasoning being provided? Will it save money due to your users using the application during business hours? Are there assumptions being made that are not applicable/valid in your case?

Personally, I was excited for serverless, but after using API Gateway and Lambda to serve a simple REST API it seemed like more work compared to using a load balancer to route requests to a container running in ECS. ECS can autoscale too, so you can scale up and down as required.