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Assessing the Migration from FaaS to IaaS: Cost, Performance, and Challenges in AWS

Authors

Casaburi, J. , Urbieta, M.M. , FIRMENICH ZORRILLA, SERGIO DAMIAN

External publication

No

Scope

Conference Paper

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

Publication date

01/01/2026

Scopus Id

2-s2.0-105020021452

Abstract

In cloud-native environments, service model selection is critical for optimizing both operational and economic outcomes. This study investigates the migration from a serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model, specifically AWS Lambda, to a monolithic solution deployed on Amazon EC2. We examine this transition to evaluate cost savings, performance improvements, and architectural considerations across various scenarios. Our findings indicate that migrating to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can offer notable cost benefits in specific contexts, though it also introduces infrastructure management requirements. This work provides insights into migration decisions and practical considerations when transitioning from FaaS to IaaS-based models. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.

Keywords

Computer architecture; Costs; Infrastructure as a service (IaaS); AWS lambda; Cloud-computing; Costs Optimization; Function as a service; Infrastructure as a service (infrastructure-as-a-service); Lambda's; Monolithic architecture; Performance benchmarking; Service modeling; Services infrastructures; Benchmarking

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