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AWS Lambda seems much simpler.

Bundle your code in a zip file. Describe it in a yaml template with the name, runtime, zip filename, memory needed, entry point in your code, and external HTTP path. Deploy it with "aws cloudformation package" and "aws cloudformation deploy".

The platform will give you load balancing, scaling, logging, metrics, internal and external endpoints, DNS, and CDN.

The PaaS platforms you mentioned are basically the same (you provide code + a bit of config and they do the rest), except priced by the hour.



The plumbing involved with Lambda tends to be onerous, as does debugging. But for many cases I completely agree it is simpler and a glimpse of the future...




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