Yeah, batch job, cron are the better fit. I also think serverless != FaaS.
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They have per-second billing. Use it as serverless.
LA according to their website.
Yep, and "hyper func" in the roadmap
The point is that you should stop thinking about VM cluster, but container (application) cluster, aka microservices.
In that sense, shall we care whether the EC2 instances in the ECS cluster are located at the same server, or the same rack?
He was talking about the boot speed, and the push/pull image workflow.
You didn't include the maintenance cost to manage your infrastructure and container platform, which you don't need to worry with a hosted service.
IMHO, nobody should care / worry about the underlying orchestration. The industry is moving toward the public service model, and all these management problem is solved by the cloud platform, not app developers. Check out hyper.sh, that's what container service would be.