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		Animats on Feb 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a static serverless website using S3 and ... Why is this "serverless"? It's just rented server capacity on a shared host, right?

nostrebored on Feb 18, 2020 | [–]

Serverless is an operational construct that refers to the amount of management you have over the underlying servers.

travisjungroth on Feb 18, 2020 | [–]

Yes. “Serverless” is an overly strong term that means you don’t even have a dedicated portion of a server.

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