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Serverless just means it's abstracted from the user. You don't choose the hardware or perform updates or maintain it, etc. You don't know which servers it's running on, and you don't care. Neither does your app.
Serverless is just the cloudy boys tricking devs and MBAs into paying 100x for code to run to drop 5% of the workload of maintaining a complaint server somewhere.
They literally managed to convince people to take a free thing like "code can run as many times as you want for nothing" and turn it into "pay us each time code runs so you don't to learn docker."
Marketing makes money.
There's value in "I want to run this code 10 million times and I don't want to have to figure out how to scale that out"