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> They charge you only when that thing happens and the code runs.

That's how App Engine worked in 2008, and it looks like it still works that way:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing

Apps running in the flexible environment are deployed to virtual machine types that you specify. These virtual machine resources are billed on a per-second basis with a 1 minute minimum usage cost.

This applied to both the web workers and the batch workers

It was "serverless" in 2008!

> spin up a dedicated server (or slice of a server) to run it continuously.

Absolutely NOT true of App Engine in 2008, and I'm pretty sure Heroku in 2008 too!



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