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Ask HN: AWS Lambda Credible Alternatives?

7 points by brunaxLorax ↗ HN
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 ?

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

yen223
Google Cloud Run. One of the few good parts of GCP.

It supports containers, and has a relatively generous free tier

icedchai
I second this. I found Cloud Run fantastic to work with.
solardev
Thirding. Cloud Run is great. App Engine is another option for some languages. GCP generally is much more ergonomic and has better docs than AWS.
idontwantthis
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.

leros
Check out Google Cloud. They have a much better developer experience than AWS.

Cloud Run is pretty easy to setup.

kjok
Did you evaluate Fly.io?
solardev
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.