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Ado from DO here. Happy to help in anyway I can. Super excited for DO Functions to finally go GA!
What is the underlying software used for DO functions? OpenFaas? Firecracker? gvisor? something custom to DO?
AWS x86 Price $0.0000166667 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests Arm Price $0.0000133334 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests DO $0.0000185/GB-second So basically a little higher price for each GB/s but no cost pr request. AWS free tier provides 400,000 GB-s and 1 million free requests per month DO free tier 90,000GB-seconds of usage for free per month So cheaper in some respects compared to AWS. Google and…
Free tier is 100 000 requests per day
Here's the pricing page: https://workers.cloudflare.com/#plans
AWS x86 Price $0.0000166667 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests Arm Price $0.0000133334 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests DO $0.0000185/GB-second So basically a little higher price for each GB/s but no cost pr request. AWS free tier provides 400,000 GB-s and 1 million free requests per month DO free tier 90,000GB-seconds of usage for free per month So cheaper in some respects compared to AWS. Google and…
Really puzzling why DO would announce a new product and make it more expensive than incumbents.
Typically, you would want to undercut existing competitors right out of the gate because your competitors will do it for you....by making the first move to reduce their prices, diminishing your own market.
Perhaps there is some other lining here but I don't understand how you launch a serverless hosting and make it more expensive than AWS.
AWS x86 Price $0.0000166667 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests Arm Price $0.0000133334 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests DO $0.0000185/GB-second So basically a little higher price for each GB/s but no cost pr request. AWS free tier provides 400,000 GB-s and 1 million free requests per month DO free tier 90,000GB-seconds of usage for free per month So cheaper in some respects compared to AWS. Google and…
Cloudflare workers: $0.15 per 1M requests per month, minimum charge of $5 per month. Free tier is 100 000 requests per day Here's the pricing page: https://workers.cloudflare.com/#plans
Not much of a room here it seems. AWS still offers more generous CPU time.
In fact any price move by new entrants can be countered by AWS going forward.
So AWS users benefit from not moving. Simply wait for others to reduce their prices and expect AWS to do the same.
Digital Ocean is great for spammers because Digital Ocean does not care to be a good internet citizen. Being a good internet citizen would be too expensive, so DO just throws up its hands and does nothing about its spamming customers.
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But then why would I shift to DO. Not much delta to encourage shift. Even individual developer wouldn't find it compelling.
It's probably more that you don't have to shift from DO to AWS because you wanted to run lambda. Although I'm not sure if this product is (yet) compelling enough to keep you on DO.
Why would anyone tie themselves to digital ocean Single infrastructure code dies and the author can't usually save it Ask a heroku fan how they're feeling right now before moving forward with any single host approach
In the real world you kinda need to pick a provider. Having all your code platform agnostic isn't really a viable option unless you've got budget to spare.
Of course it is
AWS x86 Price $0.0000166667 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests Arm Price $0.0000133334 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests DO $0.0000185/GB-second So basically a little higher price for each GB/s but no cost pr request. AWS free tier provides 400,000 GB-s and 1 million free requests per month DO free tier 90,000GB-seconds of usage for free per month So cheaper in some respects compared to AWS. Google and…
Digital Ocean's pricing model lines up more with how I expect serverless to be used. It's cheaper for APIs that are very simple and lightweight, but need to be able to handle infinite traffic. I like it. I think it incentives people to use it correctly.
or is this so much more convenient to pay a bit more and stay on DO?
Ado from DO here. Happy to help in anyway I can. Super excited for DO Functions to finally go GA!
[0] by usage I mean, I still deploy my monolithic app, or just one function per route?