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by cogman10 247 days ago
Exactly. I've always found that how people want to use lambda is the exact opposite of how to use it cost effectively.

I've seen a lot of people want to use lambdas as rest endpoints and effectively replace their entire API with a cluster of lambdas.

But that's about the most expensive way to use a lambda! 1 request, one lambda.

Where these things are useful is when you say "I have this daily data pull and ETL that I need to do." Then all the sudden the cost is pretty dang competitive.

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> Where these things are useful

All the backend processing and just general 'glue' in your architectures