A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES

Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by scarface74 on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:01AM (#21955573)

Lambdas by nature do exactly that. AWS’s runtime launches the “VMs” in response to an event.

And with webhooks I’m required to keep enough server capacity running all of the time to handle the events. Can a web hook automatically instantiate enough VMs on demand without reducing throughput?

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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by tyingq on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:25AM (#21955718)

"Can a web hook automatically instantiate enough VMs on demand without reducing throughput?"

Yes, there are various cgi-bin implementations with horizontal auto-scaling.

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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by scarface74 on Saturday January 04, 2020 @11:26AM (#21955721)

Across multiple servers or do you still have to provision your server to handle peak load?

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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by tyingq on Saturday January 04, 2020 @01:12PM (#21956359)

Yes, you can do that the same way Amazon does it. Like I said, Amazon packaged existing tech in an easy to use way.

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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by scarface74 on Saturday January 04, 2020 @01:17PM (#21956387)

That still begs the question, why am I as a developer wasting time fiddling with infrastructure that I could just throw a little money and a yaml file at AWS and let them do it? How am I adding a business value that will make my company money doing grunt work?

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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by tyingq on Saturday January 04, 2020 @04:31PM (#21957725)

I was explaining why I consider it to be "managed cgi-bin".

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