[fidrelity]

I just can't get my head around this argument of 'scales to zero'.

If you have one or more professional developers working on a project how can you be bothered about an extra $20-$200/month when you know you'll also be spending a couple of engineering hours (worth more than $200) on migrating later?

[calderwoodra]

I feel exactly the same way - this idea of a lambda monolith seems applicable to hobby projects only.

[kikimora]

Scales to zero means you can span as many environments as you want and don’t bother. Every dev can have multiple environments to demo features and do experiments.

[rco8786]

Isn’t that what local machines are for?

If you’re in territory where running locally isn’t feasible you’ve either done something horribly wrong or have scaled way past the point where either a single lambda or single ec2 instance is sufficient.

[kikimora]

I don't see how I can use a local machine to demo a feature to my PM.