I think it depends on the workload. Serving 4.6k static pages per second, cached on a CDN, is not too difficult. However, handling an analytics workload of 4.6K RPS is a little harder.
I mentioned this briefly in the article, but we thought about doing something with Lambda + API Gateway. But doing the math, 5k RPS pushed through API Gateway is about $1500 daily just to authenticate.
wsh91|9 years ago
jkodumal|9 years ago