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Serverless and homeless (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

When you have 0 usage, serverless can be up to 100% cheaper than a VPS.

That difference propels its ROI into huge values, on business models that can scale up to sigle-digit dollars a month.

Meanwhile, the risk that you get a $100000 bill out of nowhere is always there.