Re: enterprises paying lamba extreme markup? crazy
If you use a reserved instance for a workload, what are the chance of it being necessary at all times?
The value of serverless is that you pay for what you use.
So if you have a brief spike and then usage drops to next to nothing, you pay for next to nothing.
If you have peak usage for a couple of hours a day, it will scale to meet any workload, where the reserved instance could be found wanting. Then at night, all the capacity drops to zero and you pay nothing.
Amazon (and the other cloud vendors) offer the capability so people can build their own auto scaling infrastructure, lambda is great for people who don’t want to have to manage that auto scaling infrastructure.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
