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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by bathtub365 on Saturday January 04, 2020 @12:21PM (#21956054)
How is running a website on S3 different from uploading your website to a shared hosting provider 20 years ago? How is it “beautiful”?
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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by anonu on Saturday January 04, 2020 @06:53PM (#21958535)
That type of hosting didnt scale. You paid a flat fee for capped CPU and bandwidth.

Hosting today scales linearly in terms of resources and costs...

In addition you can hook up additional AWS services as your needs arise:

Add a CDN and deliver content to the edges, faster .

Add lambdas to handle regular updates to content, or basic authentication when users come in.

Monitor usage via Cloudwatch

Add in serverless API via API Gateway - and provides users more dynamic functionality.

Yes - the vendor lock-in is a major downside. Serverless isnt for everyone, neither are the big cloud vendors... YMMV.

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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by notyourday on Saturday January 04, 2020 @02:08PM (#21956702)
I'm afraid you are forgetting about developers today that had never uploaded a static website to a shared hosting provider.
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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by jdminhbg on Saturday January 04, 2020 @03:48PM (#21957393)
My shared hosting provider 20 years ago didn't have a CDN and would fall over if I got too popular.
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