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Nobody gets fired for choosing IBM, and nobody gets fired for choosing AWS.

The corollary that's missing, of course, is that they often should get fired—but popular (sorry, "boring") choices have a momentum of their own.

Is lambda really that different from any other server technology?

It’s just a container that you have to boot and it handles web requests, right?

They boot fast, so for a low traffic site you can worry less about cold start, is there any other difference with any other containerized web server?

Yes. In theory it would be the same but practically there are lots of gotchas. For a simple example, having a calculated cache on startup that five seconds would be fine on a traditional server but not on lambda.

They may not be, but cgi-bin, webservers, and monitoring via grep /var/log/www/*.log are.

You say that, but setting up a LAMP stack from scratch is more involved than just yeeting something onto GCP these days.

On Debian, a LAMP stack should not take more than an hour to set up from scratch.

hello author here! personally find AWS extremely boring, very mature and stable. well known limits, and tradeoffs.