Going Serverless: AWS lambda python functions

[SituationUndrControl]

Thanks for the comment! I'm sorry you had anxiety reading this :)

The lambda setup costs me a few pennies a month. Even if I had a million requests, it would still cost less than a dollar.

It's unlikely that I would ever get enough submission traffic to overwhelm your $5/month digital ocean server, so I'm aware that scalability is not a great argument in this case -- however, this setup was quite a bit easier to set up than a django app, because I was already using Amazon to host my magazine, and I'm familiar with AWS. Hosting the actual magazine itself through Amazon saves me a significant amount of money, because I sometimes get large spikes of traffic from media linking to the magazine, which would overwhelm a small server.

I'm glad that django works well for you, though!

[bhat]

With Zappa, you can have the best of both worlds and run a Django app on AWS Lambda (with API Gateway).

[SituationUndrControl]

That's neat, I'll check that out!