No one on HN would accept an argument that technology is “confusing” that the poster didn’t take time to learn unless it involves AWS.
You mean AWS Aurora serverless?
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
You're underlining the failing of buzzword-driven development.
> No one on HN would accept an argument that technology is “confusing”
Good. No one other than yourself ever made the mistake of doing so. If you have a hard time arguing the facts then refrain from making up fiction.
Again, you're quite (and patently) wrong. Aurora Serverless is quite bluntly a configuration of AWS Aurora to add autoscaling to AWS Aurora instances.
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
> Aurora Serverless autoscales - just like lambda.
If you're confused to the point of confounding autoscaling with serverless then I'm afraid there is no point to continue this discussion. You're just underlining the fact that "serverless" is a fad being mindlessly disseminated by clueless proponents.
We specifically could not use Aurora Serverless for our ETL jobs because of the lack of integration with S3
Again there is a difference between reading documentation and actually using it.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
I’m also not confounding “Autoscaling” and services. Being able to scale on demand and “scale down to zero” is one of the parts of how Serverless is defined.
Please don't digress. The questions regarding you assertions on "serverless" don't change or are addressed with your attempt to divert attentions to other buzzwords.
> Serverless is not just “managed hosting” in the cgi-bin since - serverless implies there is no server to manage and it’s for all intents and purposes “infinitely scalable”.
You're running in circles by trying to pin a buzzword on managed hosting.
> For instance, Amazon’s hosted versions of Mysql, Postgres, Sql Server, etc are not what they consider “Serverless”
I wouldn't use AWS as an example of coherent classification, as AWS's database offerings have multiple ovelapping concerns, including an overreaching gray area of "serverless-ness". See for example Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora.