As per costs, no idea. I did not have the chance to dig into that, but I'm confident it is not "very cheap" like we might be used to while working with, for example, AWS Lambda.
Overall, I would not recommend the AWS synthetics for pure API tests. It would be much better to either run a cron of some sort.
If you are testing the UI - that is a different story. I find the screenshots feature handy, but again is that different than running Cypress via cron?
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What is the monthly cost for the synthetics code here ? How would the price and features compare to Pingdom or a GitHub action cron job ?
As per costs, no idea. I did not have the chance to dig into that, but I'm confident it is not "very cheap" like we might be used to while working with, for example, AWS Lambda.
Overall, I would not recommend the AWS synthetics for pure API tests. It would be much better to either run a cron of some sort.
If you are testing the UI - that is a different story. I find the screenshots feature handy, but again is that different than running Cypress via cron?