The Serverless Pricing Model

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Technically, AWS Lambda and similar systems are supercharged container management services. They provide standardized execution environments to​ activate applications very quickly, and algorithms to automatically scale containers according to the workload. Although running those services is technically challenging, this is just an incremental improvement on a decade-long journey towards application virtualization. That’s why technical architects (especially those who built and operated their own container clusters in large companies) sometimes complain about how serverless is just a marketing fad. The revolutionary part of Lambda is something that other cloud providers are quickly copying: the financial side of the story. The serverless pricing model is a lot more important than the technology for application developers.