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It can be very expensive. I priced out two scenarios recently for an IoT solution. Using Lambda the cost would be $27,000k a month. Using a LB/EC2 solution with reserved instances the price was $60/month. (We also priced out IoT core, and it was $3,000k a month).

Can you share more details on this? We've just moved to Lambda and are paying approx $60/month for lambda where we were paying $260 on heroku.

But then our db on AWS is another $110, where it's included in heroku.

I know it will depend on your memory usage, etc. and as we grow, we expect to move to ec2, but I'm curious as to where/how you had such a huge difference in cost.

In our case the customer was interested in using Lambda as a proxy to handle logging data from a fleet. It involved a billion+ requests a month.

Lambda is not super expensive if you have only small amounts of traffic... it's actually super cheap in that situation.

It's cheap if you don't use it. The anthem of the cloud.

This has not been our experience at all.

Wouldn't any serverless framework assume something like lambda and SNS?