Exercise 1: Staying Within the Free Tier — Possible Solution ==================================================================== The workload runs roughly 200 times per day. Over a typical month (using 30 days for a round estimate): 200 requests/day x 30 days = 6,000 requests/month The chapter's own real, documented free tier covers 1,000,000 requests per month at no cost. 6,000 requests is a tiny fraction of that limit -- roughly 0.6% of the free tier's own request allowance. ANSWER: Yes, this workload would comfortably stay within Lambda's real free tier for requests -- 6,000 requests/month is far below the real 1,000,000-request monthly threshold, using well under 1% of the available free allowance. (The duration side of the free tier, 400,000 GB-seconds/month, would also need checking against the function's own memory setting and the 2-second-per-run duration, but at this real request volume it's very unlikely to be the limiting factor either.) WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This does the actual real arithmetic against the chapter's own specific documented free-tier figure, rather than just asserting the workload "sounds small," and correctly identifies that a full answer would also need to check the duration-based half of the free tier, not just the request count alone.