An older article by John Demian about thecost of switching to serverless. He points out that there are many ways to track and lower the costs of your serverless operation without slowing down your business.
Many businesses new to serverless infrastructure are often surprised by extra fees. If you are storing data on Amazon’s S3 service that Lambda will be reading from, these incur costs. Using Amazon DynamoDB for reading and writing storage incurs cost too. And so on.
The article dives into:
- Working with Amazon and AWS Lambda
- No more paying for idle servers
- How requests work on a serverless framework
- Are you using other services?
- How do I keep track of all this?
- How outsourcing your servers saves you money
- Cold starts on a serverless framework
While not costless, serverless is hard to beat in terms of upfront and maintenance cost. Great read!
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