Container (ECS/EKS) vs Serverless (Lambda) cost

Compare monthly cost of running a workload on always-on containers vs serverless Lambda — break-even by request volume.

Monthly requests (millions)

Avg request duration (ms)

Avg memory per request (MB)

Container fixed monthly cost

Always-on EC2/ECS instance(s).Lambda $/GB-second

$0.0000166667 standard Lambda pricing.Lambda $/request

Lambda saves vs container

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