Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way
by foobarchu on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:21PM
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He's saying that the problem is with "serverless architecture", because the problem could not possibly have happened without the use of a serverless architecture (e.g. provisioning a server). The problem is exclusive to serverless.
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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way
by skewart on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:28PM
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> The problem is exclusive to serverless.
That's simply not true. You can accidentally run up huge bills with EC2 instances too. One typo in your CloudFormation templates could spin up a ton of reserved p2.16xlarge's.
Of course, if you consider EC2, and other AWS services, to be "serverless" too - you're not physically managing your own racks after all - then, yeah, fair enough, it is a problem exclusive to these "serverless" IaaS/PaaS providers.