> This is awesome, saving that much money can be great for startups.
This doesn't sound very realistic. Cost-conscious organizations would hardly consider lambdas as a reasonable option unless you're well within the free tier limits. Otherwise lambdas are far more expensive than simply handling requests directly with a service running on EC2/ECS/Fargate.
If you have really well tuned autoscaling or really consistent request workloads. My company is still provisioned for peak load at all times which is not cheap..
We have another product built on lambdas where the compute is cheaper than the monitoring, security tooling, etc attached to the account.
Depends on your workload - it’s about $3.50 per month for the smallest T series VM on the SPOT market in the cheap regions (us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2), that is your next step up from lambda for minimal workloads. You can run a whole lot (many many millions) of lambda invocations before your bill gets anywhere close to 3.50. But after you exceed that point a dedicated instance running your workload full time starts to look nice.
You could also run a Digital Ocean droplet for less which might make sense if your on tinkerer budget and don’t need IAM access control or VPC access.
This doesn't sound very realistic. Cost-conscious organizations would hardly consider lambdas as a reasonable option unless you're well within the free tier limits. Otherwise lambdas are far more expensive than simply handling requests directly with a service running on EC2/ECS/Fargate.