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Akamai EdgeWorkers vs Amazon Cloudfront Functions

Compare Service Types, Runtimes, Execution Limits, Compliance, Regions and Alternatives

Features

Akamai EdgeWorkers
Category

Hosted
FaaS
KV Store
Edge

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Category

Hosted
FaaS
KV Store
N/A
Edge

Akamai EdgeWorkers
Supported Runtimes

JavaScript

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Supported Runtimes

JavaScript

Akamai EdgeWorkers
Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

Min. Memory
64 MB
Max. Memory
128 MB
Default Timeout
10 sec
Max. Timeout
1 min
Request Payload
5 MB
Response Payload
5 MB

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

Min. Memory
2 MB
Max. Memory
2 MB
Default Timeout
Max. Timeout
~1 ms
Request Payload
10 KB
Response Payload
10 KB

Akamai EdgeWorkers
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
N/A
Regions
N/A
Points of Presence
N/A

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Global
Regions
13
Points of Presence
600+

Alternatives are matched by platform types, use cases, programming languages and deployment options

Compare Features, Languages, Execution Limits and Alternatives

Category

Decentralized
Hosted
Self Hosted
BaaS
FaaS
Compute
CaaS
Docker
Managed K8s
DBaaS
KV Store
PaaS
IaC
Edge
Emulator
API Gateway

Container Deployment

Docker
Docker Private Registry
Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes
WebAssembly

Supported Runtimes

JavaScript

Supported Frameworks

Supported Frameworks

Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

64 MB
Min. Memory
2 MB
128 MB
Max. Memory
2 MB
10 sec
Default Timeout
1 min
Max. Timeout
~1 ms
5 MB
Request Payload
10 KB
5 MB
Response Payload
10 KB

Compliance

Certificates

Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Global
Regions
13
Points of Presence
600+

Sustainabilty

Green Energy

Alternatives are matched on service types, programming languages and container support.

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