Zero-Idle

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Zero-idle is the primary cost constraint governing Prosyon system design. Every architectural choice is evaluated against whether the system can reach $0 at idle — where “idle” means no incoming traffic and no scheduled work.

The practical implication is a preference for pay-per-request primitives (Lambda, DynamoDB on-demand, CloudFront, S3) over always-on resources (EC2, RDS, NAT Gateways). A zero-idle system may still have a small storage cost at rest, but compute and transfer costs trend to zero.

Zero-Idle on Prosyon Research

Zero-Idle