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Next you'll tell me "cloud" computing doesn't happen inside a bunch of water vapor.

While not really accurate, "Serverless computing" is the accepted industry standard term for this model where server management is abstracted away with cloud-based services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing

I would argue that it’s not an industry standard unless it’s back by some sort of ISO like RFC. I’d also argue that it’s not an accepted term as _many_ people don’t agree with its misleading name, for example I personally see it as marketing spin.

The thing here is that they're not using any of AWS's proper server offerings. There's no EC2 or Lightsail or even RDS. There is no thing or concrete group of things that you can point to and say, "There, those are my servers." It's based off API Gateway, S3 and Lambda, none of which is recognizable as a server in the traditional sense (though of course there are servers behind the scenes implementing the abstraction).