There's a certain amount of traffic that tips the scales to make serverless a more expensive bill at the end of the month.

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Serverless applications offer significant cost of ownership (TCO) advantages compared to containers. Comparing provisioned services like EC2 with a pay-for-what-you-use service like Lambda is difficult but not impossible to do. The tipping point is usually difficult to objectify.

When Is Serverless More Expensive Than Containers?