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Exactly. If you run a server then you risk paying for resource allocation
you don't use (cpu, memory).

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 20:50, Forrest Christian (List Account) <
lists@packetflux.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 4:30 PM Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:
>
>> This terminology is getting worse and having less meaning. Serverless
>> servers?
>
>
> Actually "Serverless"  is a pretty accurate term, and I'm starting to
> experiment with it with MQTT messaging from the embedded world.
>
> In short serverless just says that you tell your cloud provider (Amazon
> AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure), etc. what you want it to do and don'=
t
> worry about the underlying servers at all.   I.E. things like "When you g=
et
> a temperature reading via MQTT from a device, stick it in a database".
> Then another serverless service could say 'if you see a temperature over =
a
> certain amount, send an email', and so on.
>
> Because you're paying per transactions it can be really cheap...for
> instance, AWS costs $1 per million MQTT messages.   So if you have a devi=
ce
> that sends data once a minute it's going to cost you around 4 cents per
> month for message reception for that device.    Oh and just over 4 cents
> per *year* to maintain the connection to the device.   And you'll end up
> paying for the database storage, etc.   Yes it can add up, but generally =
at
> least at the low end it's cheaper than running a full server infrastructu=
re
> for services like this.   Plus you don't have to think about how you're
> going to manage the underlying services.
>
> --
> - Forrest
>
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