AWS Lambda Credible Alternatives?

Question

Hello,I am a developer with few skills in DevOps and I am looking for a solution to run small APIs on docker containers. My goal is to have the least amount of infrastructure to manage as I am short on time and I am relatively new to it so I see the "severless" abstraction a good thing for my current situation/I think that Lambda is cool for that but I found the AWS UI quite overwhelming. I checked Digital Ocean functions but you can't use a container. Do you know other similar products ?

yen223 · Accepted Answer

Google Cloud Run. One of the few good parts of GCP.It supports containers, and has a relatively generous free tier

leros · Answer

Check out Google Cloud. They have a much better developer experience than AWS.Cloud Run is pretty easy to setup.

solardev · Answer

Do you have to use Docker? If you can write the func in Javascript, Cloudflare Workers are amazing and so much easier to use than AWS.You can also write them write inside Next.js and deploy them to Vercel with a single click.

achempion · Answer

Have you looked into PaaS, for example, Render: https://render.com/docs/deploy-an-image

idontwantthis · Answer

I don&rsquo;t think you will learn to deploy anything serverless in less time than you could deploy a server.And you will learn more general devops skills instead of one particular provider&rsquo;s serverless API.

flybayer · Answer

You might like https://www.flightcontrol.dev which makes it easy to deploy servers or Lambdas. (I'm cofounder)

brunaxLorax · Answer

It will be an express based REST API that connects to an external Database.The API will have to expose endpoints and do CRUD operations for the most part.

kbjoern · Answer

Can you provide more information of what you are aiming to archive in regards of your API?

bigbassroller · Answer

Skip the UI and use Terraform

kjok · Answer

Did you evaluate Fly.io?

AWS Lambda Credible Alternatives?

Google Cloud Run. One of the few good parts of GCP.
It supports containers, and has a relatively generous free tier

Check out Google Cloud. They have a much better developer experience than AWS.
Cloud Run is pretty easy to setup.

Do you have to use Docker? If you can write the func in Javascript, Cloudflare Workers are amazing and so much easier to use than AWS.
You can also write them write inside Next.js and deploy them to Vercel with a single click.

Have you looked into PaaS, for example, Render: https://render.com/docs/deploy-an-image

I don’t think you will learn to deploy anything serverless in less time than you could deploy a server.
And you will learn more general devops skills instead of one particular provider’s serverless API.

You might like https://www.flightcontrol.dev which makes it easy to deploy servers or Lambdas. (I'm cofounder)

It will be an express based REST API that connects to an external Database.
The API will have to expose endpoints and do CRUD operations for the most part.

Can you provide more information of what you are aiming to archive in regards of your API?

Skip the UI and use Terraform

Did you evaluate Fly.io?