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Comparison

Akamai EdgeWorkers vs Amazon CloudFront Functions

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
Managed
Managed
Services
CDN
CDN
Edge Functions
Edge Functions
Key-Value Store
Key-Value Store
Workloads
Edge Request Processing
Edge Request Processing
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment Rollbacks
Preview Environments
Preview Environments

Development & Execution

Runtimes
V8 Isolates
V8 Isolates
Languages
JavaScript
JavaScript
Triggers
Edge Events
Edge Events
HTTP Requests
HTTP Requests

Pricing

Billing basis
Resource based EdgeWorkers Resource Tiers and Billing
Resource based Amazon CloudFront Functions Usage
Requests / executions
  • Invoked events — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • CloudFront Functions invocations — $0.10 · per 1 million invocations
Compute
  • Basic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • Dynamic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
Unknown
Free entry / commitment
Existing Akamai customers can add a free Evaluation tier without a time limit; other users can request an EdgeWorkers free trial.
Recurring free allowances

Infrastructure & Availability

Execution & locality
  • Execution: Edge
  • Scope: Global
  • Execution: Edge
  • Scope: Global
Provider / network
  • Own Network
  • Amazon Web Services
Availability footprint
  • 4,400+ PoPs
  • 750+ PoPs

Resource & Execution Limits

CPU / execution time
Unknown
Submillisecond Per invocation
Memory
Unknown
2 MB Per function
Code / package size
512 KB compressed / 1 MB uncompressed Per EdgeWorker
Unknown
Request / response size
16,384 characters respondWith()
Unknown

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
Group and role permissions EdgeWorker IDs
AWS IAM for function management
Audit Logging
Unknown
CloudTrail management events and CloudWatch function logs Edge request logs are best effort
Encryption & secrets
Encryption
Unknown
Function code, configuration, and key-value data at rest and in transit CloudFront Functions and KVS
Network isolation & protection
Network Isolation
Unknown
Dedicated process and CPU; data cleared between executions Per edge location
Assurances & programs
ISO Certifications
ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 & 27018 EdgeWorkers on Secure CDN with Enhanced TLS
Unknown
PCI DSS
Level 1 Secure CDN with Enhanced TLS; EdgeKV excluded
Unknown
HIPAA
Unknown
HIPAA-eligible service AWS BAA and customer controls required
SOC Reports
Unknown
SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3 Amazon CloudFront service scope