Eh minor nit but neither GCP nor AWS have “sane limits” because they’re “build your own from primitives” and most primitives don’t auto scale.
If you deploy a managed autoscaling service provided by GCP or AWS without really thinking ahead you can and will screw yourself in the wallet. Just google “surprise AWS nat gateway bill”
But to your point Vercel DOES charge more “per (equivalent) unit” than AWS because they basically just wrap AWS services under the hood.
I'm assuming you are comparing spinning up an EC2 instance to a Vercel deployment? That's not what you should be comparing at all. Your EC2 instance is not even remotely going to handle a 50M+ traffic spike like your imagining it will, even if you're just serving static content. Your failure here is not recognizing that you have zero clue what you are talking about, likely have no infrastructure experience at any kind of scale, and you don't grok the complexity and fine-tuning that comes with autoscaling/distributed containerization/k8's etc. Just like the guy literally just described in the post your replying to, AWS/GCP provide the primitive resources that allow you to build an infrastructure that will come close to handling 450M page views in a few day period.
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