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Philip

I completely agree regarding the scale, with one addendum: there is a second range, where you outgrow a dedicated server. You either have to deal with the new complexity of load-balancing and making the application ready to be distributed, or go with a serverless system again, which largely cuts down on costs for operation now (covering failover scenarios, even outside business hours etc.).

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Burke Holland

This is a fascinating perspective. So you can outgrow Serverless, but then outgrow a dedicated server and come back to Serverless? I never even considered this. I suppose the distributed needs are the driver from coming back from dedicated?

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Alex Pawlak

Isn't that more about booking a reserved, dedicated capacity and scale out when and if needed?