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Does anyone have experience with alternatives to AWS Lambda (like azure functions)? How hard is it to switch between serverless providers?

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I played with Firebase (Google Cloud) Functions recently and the developer experience was pretty good. It's like if serverless (https://serverless.com/) had first party support, in the form of the Firebase CLI. Deploying was simple, the Firebase dashboard is nice. That said, I only used it for a side project, so I don't know about any pains scaling. I would definitely use it again for another side project, though.

I will second Firebase. It has really matured as a platform over the past couple of years and is a much easier service to work with than AWS.

As to the parent’s question on switching cloud providers though I think it would be non trivial.

www.coherenceapi.com

Makes the OP's scenario much easier. Code upload and configuration all handled for you. You run code online the same way you call a local function.

Disclaimer: I am the founder/dev/designer of CoherenceApi.

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