52 articles on serverless — what drives the cost, how it is priced, and where the savings actually are.
Consumption bills per execution and scales to zero; Premium bills ~$150/month per always-on instance for no cold starts and VNet. Here's the crossover and the min-instances trap.
Cloud Run bills per request-second and scales to zero; GKE bills for nodes 24/7. The cheaper option comes down to utilization. Here's the crossover, the min-instances trap, and where Autopilot fits.
Lambda wins for sporadic and event-driven workloads. Containers win for steady high-volume traffic. The crossover is around 2-3M requests/day for typical APIs. Here's the math, the workload archetypes, and a decision framework.
Lambda is the most mis-estimated AWS service. Here's why cost tools show $0 by default, what data to feed them for accurate numbers, and the four optimization levers that actually move the bill.