Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
by scarface74 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @09:43AM
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Afterwards, charging customers a premium to use the service is a secondary bonus.
If I have a process that either only needs to run sporadically and/or is very spikey - web request, events, etc. why wouldn’t it be cheaper if you only need peak capacity 20% instead of paying for peak capacity all of the time when you don’t need it?
It doesn’t take an advanced degree in math to determine where the break even point between paying more per second for extreme elasticity is cheaper than paying for an always available resource.
If you’re using a cluster, traditional you’re still paying for peak capacity of your cluster all of the time.
But guess what? AWS also offers Serverless Docker - Fargate and the same math applies, you pay slightly more for the elasticity and not having to spend time managing a cluster of servers for the convenience and elasticity.
But either way, if your business is so undercapitalized that the difference between serverless and reserved capacity, you have bigger issues. Also, the more pets you can get rid of and the more automation and training of your developers you can do, if you can just reduce your infrastructure staff by one person, it will more than pay for itself.
If I have a process that either only needs to run sporadically and/or is very spikey - web request, events, etc. why wouldn’t it be cheaper if you only need peak capacity 20% instead of paying for peak capacity all of the time when you don’t need it?
It doesn’t take an advanced degree in math to determine where the break even point between paying more per second for extreme elasticity is cheaper than paying for an always available resource.
If you’re using a cluster, traditional you’re still paying for peak capacity of your cluster all of the time.
But guess what? AWS also offers Serverless Docker - Fargate and the same math applies, you pay slightly more for the elasticity and not having to spend time managing a cluster of servers for the convenience and elasticity.
But either way, if your business is so undercapitalized that the difference between serverless and reserved capacity, you have bigger issues. Also, the more pets you can get rid of and the more automation and training of your developers you can do, if you can just reduce your infrastructure staff by one person, it will more than pay for itself.