Sure, I pay less than a dollar most months then in my busy months I’ll pay a max of ~$20 for my backend.
It’s event software, like for a food festival. Most of the months there is almost 0 traffic, for 1-3 months there is lower traffic as pre-sales start with random spikes when the event organizers advertise, then for 1-5 days there is high traffic peaking on a single day or two during the event.
Because the load is incredibly spiky it’s nice to let Lambda scale automatically for me. Trying to scale a server, even bare metal, manually would be a pain in the ass. Even as I run this software for multiple events it’s cheaper than $5/mo and a $5 instance wouldn’t be able to handle the load at peak.
If my lambda bill ever got higher than an average of $20/mo I might consider a bare metal or VM server but honestly I prefer not thinking about it. And the profit dwarfs the server costs, like it’s not even close. The lambda server costs, even if they were 50x, would still be minor.
It’s event software, like for a food festival. Most of the months there is almost 0 traffic, for 1-3 months there is lower traffic as pre-sales start with random spikes when the event organizers advertise, then for 1-5 days there is high traffic peaking on a single day or two during the event.
Because the load is incredibly spiky it’s nice to let Lambda scale automatically for me. Trying to scale a server, even bare metal, manually would be a pain in the ass. Even as I run this software for multiple events it’s cheaper than $5/mo and a $5 instance wouldn’t be able to handle the load at peak.
If my lambda bill ever got higher than an average of $20/mo I might consider a bare metal or VM server but honestly I prefer not thinking about it. And the profit dwarfs the server costs, like it’s not even close. The lambda server costs, even if they were 50x, would still be minor.