- AWS wants to lock you into their ecosystem so it'll be cheaper.
- In the future, we can switch from CSV to JSON or Parquet or mix and match without any overhead.
- In the future, we can switch from CSV to JSON or Parquet or mix and match without any overhead like rewriting the /load endpoints to use a different SQL flavor or parsing library.
- API Gateway
- Rate limiting and caching built-in
- Abstracts interfacing with the API away from raw lambda invocation URLs
- Can be mapped to a domain
- Athena
- Less up-front configuration involved. I hope.
- AWS wants to lock you into their ecosystem so it'll be cheaper.
- In the future, we can switch from CSV to JSON or Parquet or mix and match without any overhead.