[joshstrange]

Yeah, I totally understand and agree with your "downsides" for lambdas. My use case just happens to gel perfectly with them but it's not a "one-size-fits-all".

I also looked at SEED and I would like to give them money but some of their methodology with SEED didn't fit with mine and since my deploys aren't horrible I left my system as-is. Also I understand they need to make money but I wish more tools geared towards serverless "scaled to zero". I'm happy to pay but my company has such bursty traffic that paying for a plan (on SEED or something like monitoring) that can handle our "peak" means burning money 70%-90% of the time while our app is scaled to zero but we still have to pay for tools around it.

Some monitoring tools, like New Relic, are based on usage but both NR and DataDog have absolute shit serverless monitoring solutions and their docs are a dumpster fire (at least around serverless). It's also unfortunate that most serverless monitoring means adding ~$10 per account per month (in increased AWS costs) just for their data pipelines to scan CloudWatch logs. This again sucks since we have an AWS account per client but each client is only active for ~1mo every year so it can get expensive fast.