The premium you pay for serverless versus a VPS with comparable performance/bandwidth requirements.
$4/month for smallest VPS vs the burdensome $0 for first million requests? The author's framing is non-sense.
vs waking up with a $1000 bill because some bored hackers decided to have some fun. With the 4$, it is still $4 no matter what happens.
It’s not a premium — it’s a business decision as to whether based on expects number of requests it makes more sense to pay for a serverless or VPS setup