What is a common characteristic of serverless and containers?

Serverless functions are typically designed to be short-lived, event-driven processes, not for prolonged execution, whereas containers can run for prolonged periods but are often restarted or scaled.

While both run on hosting platforms, containers are known for their portability across various environments, and serverless abstracts the underlying platform entirely, making "specific hosting platforms" not a defining common characteristic.

Both serverless computing and containers are fundamental technologies in cloud-native architectures that enable automated and dynamic scaling of workloads. Serverless functions automatically scale up and down based on invocation, while container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes facilitate the dynamic scaling of containerized applications in response to demand.

While many container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes are open source, several prominent serverless platforms are proprietary cloud services, so "open source" is not a universally common characteristic for both.