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Re:How we saved over $1k by building CloudForecast with Serv... by francoislagier on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:50PM (#17962264)
Francois here, one of the co-founder of CloudForecast.io! Serverless with Lambda fits our needs almost perfectly. We are not using API Gateway and it is truly spiky. Timeouts and recursions were a bit of challenge but nothing crazy since our use cases were fairly simple. Cold starts are definitely a pain but since it's not customer-facing we can leave with it ...
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Re:How we saved over $1k by building CloudForecast with Serv... by QuinnyPig on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:09PM (#17962384)
Can confirm--API Gateway pricing is nuts for many use cases.

"Think of it like a Swiss Army Knife; it does a lot, it's easy to hurt yourself with it, it can be incredibly expensive, and the instructions are all written in Swiss German."

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