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Discussion on: Is Serverless really as cheap as everyone claims?

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Asad Raheem

Thanks for such a detailed article.

  • On the consumption plan, we also need to take account of the cold start. Is that time also included in the execution time? Doesn't it hinder the experience of the user?
  • Can we adopt a multi/poly cloud strategy when it comes to serverless?
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Burke Holland
  • No. Azure Functions does not charge for startup time.
  • Funny you should ask this. I do happen to know of something coming quite soon that does exactly this. I've pinged those folks. Perhaps they'll drop in here and give us some news.
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Asad Raheem • Edited

Excited about the upcoming thing. Thanks for pinging them.

It would be super awesome if you can do a similar article on Azure Serverless Databases in the future. Dynamic scaling while being charged only when databases are being used seems to be really interesting.