Im under the impression that lambda gets expensive if you have many requests. E.g. the story on ipify that showed 1000s of USD on lambda vs 100s on Heroku:
“Today the service runs for between $150/mo and $200/mo depending on burst traffic and other factors. If I factor that into my calculator (assuming a $200/mo spend), ipify is able to service each request for total cost of $0.000000007. That’s astoundingly low.
If you compare that to the expected cost of running the same service on a serverless or functions-as-a-service provider, ipify would cost thousands of dollars per month.”
“Today the service runs for between $150/mo and $200/mo depending on burst traffic and other factors. If I factor that into my calculator (assuming a $200/mo spend), ipify is able to service each request for total cost of $0.000000007. That’s astoundingly low.
If you compare that to the expected cost of running the same service on a serverless or functions-as-a-service provider, ipify would cost thousands of dollars per month.”