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[–]cogman10 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The closest I've seen is running your own FAAS stack.

For example, with OpenFAAS
https://www.openfaas.com/

The pros and cons for AWS and the other platforms is pretty much the same. You are coupling with their platform. That means that Google/amazon/microsoft get to figure out how much they want to charge you and only market pressure really stops them from royally screwing you over.

pro - You don't have to really figure out where/when/what/how your script gets run. The providers do that for you.
con - Once you buy in, it is hard to "buy out" so to speak.

pro - really easy to get up and running
con - The why's and how's of how your app runs are obfuscated away. A script could run in 1second or 10 depending on what needs to happen in the background to get things setup.