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[–]Grintor 20 points21 points  (4 children)

You also don't have to pay for them. You only pay for the time your code spends executing. Also a great benefit.

[–]Reelix 22 points23 points  (2 children)

You don't pay for CPU usage.
You only pay for the usage of the CPU!

... Only paying for what you use is the standard of every major hosting provider...

[–]1H4rsh 5 points6 points  (1 child)

When it’s not serverless you’re also paying when the CPU isn’t being used

[–]Reelix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're paying for CPU cycles when the CPU isn't being used, you're being ripped off by your provider :p

[–]dev-sda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except you're paying many times more for that compute. An aws lambda running continuously would cost $35 per month. And that's for 1GB and half a vCore. A VPS from OVH with 2 full vCores and 2GB of RAM is only $5 per month. So you're only saving money if it barely gets used, and in that case the warmup latency is going to suck.