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I don't think being cheaper is the main value sell of serverless. When I hear "serverless" I think "ease of deployment and automatic scaling".

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Serverless is incredibly cheap for endpoints that don't get called too often, and incredibly expensive for endpoints that are.

I guess different people just have different experiences.

Right but ultimately that's a cost thing, right? Because you can solve those problems through other means and by hiring internally.

Serverless is meant to obviate some of that. But it is less compelling when the vendor tries to gobble up that margin for themselves.

You will all forced to go serverless because new grads can't use the command line. Running a database is about the hardest thing you can do. If it is serverless, you don't need special skills, preventing employees from becoming valuable lowers costs across the board.

Have you tried being less jaded? Running a database is NOT about the hardest thing you can do.

When running a service, databases are the hardest to run. K8S still doesn't handle them well (this is by design), so they are the first thing to get outsourced to a managed service.

This is me being less jaded. Support those little wins!

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