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Don't ALBs have a minimum hourly cost? Last time I looked into this, you couldn't run an ALB for less than ~$17/month.

Definitely cheaper than API gateways for even a moderate amount of traffic, but API gateway costs scale down to zero for unused or rarely used endpoints.

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What ALBs don’t have is a maximum payload size. :)

Note: The “official” way to work around this is to write your large payload to S3 and then create a pre-signed S3 URL that you return to the caller instead.

There are limits all the way down.

ALB with Lambda - 1MB

Lambda - 6MB

Given that we're talking about ALBs with Lambda targets, their limit is actually quite a bit lower than API Gateway: 1MB

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...

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