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Discussion on: A crash course on Serverless APIs with Express and MongoDB

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Favio Náquira

How much does it cost monthly this implementation? I'm curios about starting on AWS because the pricing is sometimes a little confusing (I'm using Google Cloud currently)

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Adnan Rahić

It's rather cheap for hosting apps of this type. Here are a couple of calculators you can use to estimate the price of both Lambda and API Gateway. Have in mind you'll be paying for MongoDB Atlas separately. Here's their pricing calculator.

If you want to see how big of a difference having a serverless architecture is, read this Twitter thread by Troy Hunt.