TL;DR
- Serverless wins on time-to-first-user and quiet workloads.
- ~10M invocations/month is the rough break-even for containers.
- The real cost is operational readiness, not the compute.
We've helped clients migrate from Lambda-heavy stacks to containers, and the other direction too. Here's what we look at.
The break-even math
Above roughly 10M invocations per month on Lambda, containers start looking attractive — but only if you have someone to operate them.
