Serverless vs. Serverful Architectures

Serverful Architecture

• You are responsible for provisioning and maintaining the underlying compute resources.
• Key responsibilities include:
  • Operating system patching and maintenance
  • Manual or auto-scaling configurations
  • Managing load balancers
  • Forecasting capacity and reserving instances
• Common Platforms:
  • Amazon EC2
  • DigitalOcean Droplets

Serverless Architecture

• The underlying infrastructure is entirely abstracted away and managed by the cloud vendor.
• Developers only focus on writing code, and the platform scales it automatically based on events.
• Common Platforms:
  • AWS Lambda
  • Azure Functions
  • Google Cloud Functions