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Do you scale to zero for the resume achievement or to actually save money?

I like to use it for little side projects, then I can leave them alone forever and not have to shut them down.

Yep, I've got a side project running on AWS Lambda + DynamoDB for maybe 5 years now. It's only now getting big enough that I'm no longer on the free tier.

My bills are around $0.02 a month from API Gateway =)

To actually save money. Mostly due to not needing to have a 24/7 team managing it.

AWS Lambda NEVER goes down. And if it does, it's most likely someone messing with DNS or backbone routing again and half the world is broken anyway.

It does need skill though, the billing model isn't as clear as "you pay me X euros a month for a server, I don't care what you do with it", but it's not dark magic either.

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