{"id":7264,"date":"2017-04-07T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2017-03-03T13:52:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:52:45","slug":"serverless-computing-saving-money-by-removing-hardware-resources-from-the-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/serverless-computing-saving-money-by-removing-hardware-resources-from-the-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"Serverless Computing: Saving Money by Removing Hardware Resources from the Equation"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early days of cloud computing people described it\u00a0like a utility: you can scale it up or down at a moments notice and are billed \u00a0foronly as many compute cycles that you actually use. \u00a0But in reality, what\u00a0often happens\u00a0is\u00a0that people have just moved on-premise thinking to the cloud. \u00a0The cloud is often used like a hosting service. Cloud servers are loaded up with software and then run continuously, just like they did on-premise, whether the servers are idle or not.<\/p>\n

Serverless Computing<\/a> is a concept that some cloud vendors like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure are offering that\u00a0is closer to the idea of utility billing. \u00a0With serverless computing you need only worry about the software that you will run. \u00a0All of the resource provisioning, server allocation, memory allocation, disk space is handled automatically. \u00a0Users are only billed when their software actually runs and for any resources needed to support it. \u00a0It is Platform as a Service in its purest form.<\/p>\n

Benefits of Serverless Computing include:<\/p>\n