AWS Lambda shifted in the way Ops teams provision and manage their organization's infrastructure. Customers can now run their code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure while paying a low price. The first 1 million requests per month are free, and it's $0.20 per 1 million requests thereafter, so you might use Lambda's free tier indefinitely. However, intensive use cases and huge workload applications can unnecessarily cost you thousands of dollars if you don't pay extra attention to your function's resource usage and code optimization.
In order to keep your Lambda costs under control, you must understand how the Lambda pricing model works. There are three factors that determine the cost of your function:
- Number of executions: Number of invocations; you pay $0.0000002 per request.
- Allocated memory: The amount of RAM...