I understand that with AWS, you need a sysadmin. That is why I was saying with serverless (in this case, AWS Lambda) you didn't need a sysadmin. I assume it's the same with Google Functions and whatever Azure has.
True serverless let's me offload that cost to AWS instead of having a sysadmin
Whoever created them
> Application deployments
Build pipeline
> testing, qa
QA / Customer Support
So, still no sysadmin.
Not saying it has to be this way, just saying originally that serverless can save you money.
In fact, we are in the process of moving all our APIs over to AWS Lambda w/ ES and it's going to save us 25-50% of our EC2 costs.
We might be able too do the same since we are re-writing in another language, but without AWS Lambda, we would have never gotten that shot.