This business standpoint is the whole thing, I don’t see many people arguing otherwise. And the business standpoint is in fact quite revolutionary.
Amazon can have a team of like 5 engineers maintaining VM images and as a result 500,000 other people don’t have to. And so you can host a “server” that’s only “on” when it’s in use, and usually end up paying less than $1/mo.
In fact, you could likely run all of your side projects in lambda and if they’re “conventional web server” type things you could still end up paying less than $1/mo across all of them.
Compare that to a $5/mo droplet for every side project (you probably don’t want to bunk multiple services into a $5 VM) and it definitely adds up before even considering updating the OS on those droplets.
This business standpoint is the whole thing, I don’t see many people arguing otherwise. And the business standpoint is in fact quite revolutionary.
Amazon can have a team of like 5 engineers maintaining VM images and as a result 500,000 other people don’t have to. And so you can host a “server” that’s only “on” when it’s in use, and usually end up paying less than $1/mo.
In fact, you could likely run all of your side projects in lambda and if they’re “conventional web server” type things you could still end up paying less than $1/mo across all of them.
Compare that to a $5/mo droplet for every side project (you probably don’t want to bunk multiple services into a $5 VM) and it definitely adds up before even considering updating the OS on those droplets.