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Gradual rollouts with AWS Lambda

Learn how to mitigate deployment risks using AWS Lambda's gradual rollout feature, enabling safer, incremental updates to your product's backend.

The choice of infrastructure

In the past few years, the demand for various internet-based services has increased tremendously. As a result, IT departments have to invest a lot of efforts in keeping their systems up and running. The applications themselves are also evolving, becoming more complex and more demanding to non-business domain layers. In such circumstances, choosing the right infrastructure solution becomes crucial.

AWS is too expensive for the majority of web projects

There are loads of solutions for deploying small scale web apps — Netlify, Vercel, Heroku, even Github Pages. But when it comes to serious projects you would want to be in full control of infrastructure and environment.

AWS Lambda's free tier is the best way to host your websites for free — isn't it?

In this blog post, I will compare AWS Lambda's free plan to the free plans of other app hosting providers. I'm going to provide real numbers to see how much a user can get from the most popular serverless hosting platform and its competitors without even paying for it.