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Re:Google not Amazon. Make fantastic savings in a server-les... by brad0 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:12PM (#14809348)
I'd love to see this backed up with actual cost comparison breakdown on google vs Amazon.

Also, I'm not sure the article 100% clarifies what it means by serverless. Does it mean "functions as a service", or something else? The term serverless is overloaded these days.

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Re:Google not Amazon. Make fantastic savings in a server-les... by IshKebab on Thursday July 20, 2017 @08:11AM (#14811738)
I think it means anything that doesn't require you to know or even decide how many servers you are using. It automatically scales by default.

It would include App Engine and Elastic Beanstalk, but also 'functions as a service' like AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions.

The author is clearly talking about App Engine, but comparing it to EC2 which is definitely not serverless, and very disingenuous. Even Google has an 'normal' non-serverless EC2-like option now.

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