Originally Posted by
CeeBee
There is a new player on the field and it's directly chewing into the EC2 user base... AWS Lambda, server-less web services.. on-demand computing billed to the 0.1 second.
The advantage for Amazon is that they provide the same computing power with fewer resources, no need for some apps to sit on top of an OS multiplied across tens of thousands of VMs.
As a developer I would just setup the app, upload my code to the service and it's ready to serve 1 client/day or 1 million clients per hour, no need to worry about load balancing and adding extra resources ahead of a major national campaign.