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Serverless runs on servers (gregtech.eu)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/sysadmin

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You might be surprised to learn that there are economies of scale at play here. If you want a managed application that has light traffic, then you can pay less for serverless than you would pay for hardware + wasted hours when the hardware is powered on but serving no traffic.

I agree that there are some companies making poor decisions about which software they run in the cloud though. "Cloud mandates" are really stupid, because they're basically just a trap where cloud providers offer a large amount of free cloud credits to get companies dependent on their platform.