DigitalOcean Functions
hey
OG
DO just launching their new product functions
DigitalOcean Functions is a serverless computing solution that runs on-demand, enabling you to focus on your code, scale instantly with confidence, and save costs by eliminating the need to maintain servers.
https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-digitalocean-functions-serverless-computing
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Basically, pricing does not undercut AWS by a lot. Disappointing.
From @kennethh on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31491029
Not really seeing anything super compelling there tbh.
Though for smaller projects additional providers are always welcome. #FreeAllowance
The big cloud providers use their unutilized capacity this way, any time a server isn't being used, it can be put up as a spot/preemptible instance which can be utilized by an external customer, or the internal FaaS customer. Digitalocean doesn't have this luxury of having unused instances lying around, and naturally the pricing is higher. I believe they're still losing money on it.