Is your pi at an AWS data center? How much to co-host it at an AWS-grade data center?
Sure a self-hosted pi is cheaper, but that's an apples vs oranges comparison.
Sure a self-hosted pi is cheaper, but that's an apples vs oranges comparison.
I'd even question whether or not the application needs to be in an "AWS-grade datacenter" since it does 1 query every 10 seconds but sure...
I'd be more than willing to bet hertzner's cheapest VPS (~$3.25?) would do over a million[1] requests per month pretty easily and they're inside a data center which is a pretty apples to apples comparison.
My point is that the cost per request is high, regardless of data center or not. That's a lot of money for such a low volume of requests.
[1] Which is still only a request like every 2 seconds.
Not that it has a gigabit uplink. But handling 100k req/s is trivial for a well-written server.
Hertzner is closer, but even then, it's not AWS Lambda. Setup and maintenance of a VPS is not "free".
This is what you pay for in the datacenter. The request handling itself is much simpler.