> There's nothing stopping anyone from implementing a cloud that runs CGI or FastCGI that scales down to zero (with per second billing), and scales up to infinity. It's just that nobody has chosen to do so
I think in discussions like this it's often helpful to think of Lambda not as a technology but as a product. Lambda isn't "CGI with extra steps", it's "CGI with per second billing", which is a rarer offering.
I think in discussions like this it's often helpful to think of Lambda not as a technology but as a product. Lambda isn't "CGI with extra steps", it's "CGI with per second billing", which is a rarer offering.