Example Cost Comparisons

This lesson helps you to evaluate when to go serverless using technologies such as AWS Lambda and when a more traditional architecture using Amazon EC2 instances may make more sense based on your workload’s performance optimization requirements.

Learning Objectives

• Learn what to consider when choosing between EC2 instances and serverless services for your cloud-based application architectures
• Learn when to go serverless or when to use EC2 instances instead

Intended Audience

• Anyone responsible for migrating existing applications to the AWS Cloud
• Solutions architects looking to decide between EC2 instances and a serverless implementation

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of Amazon EC2 as well as the various serverless service offerings in AWS, which you can learn about in this lesson: https://cloudacademy.com/course/survey-serverless-2399/