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Comparison

Akamai EdgeWorkers vs AWS Lambda@Edge

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

Comparison space

Updated

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
Node.js
Node.js
V8 Isolates
V8 Isolates
Languages
JavaScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
TypeScript
TypeScript
Triggers
Edge Events
Edge Events
HTTP Requests
HTTP Requests

Pricing

Billing basis
Resource based EdgeWorkers Resource Tiers and Billing
Resource based AWS Lambda@Edge Usage
Requests / executions
  • Invoked events — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • Lambda@Edge requests — $0.60 · per 1 million requests
Compute
  • Basic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • Dynamic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • Lambda@Edge duration — $0.00000625125 · per 128 MB-second
Free entry / commitment
Existing Akamai customers can add a free Evaluation tier without a time limit; other users can request an EdgeWorkers free trial.
Lambda@Edge is billed by request and execution duration CloudFront distribution, request, and data-transfer charges remain separate.

Infrastructure & Availability

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

Resource & Execution Limits

CPU / execution time
Unknown
30 seconds Per invocation
Memory
Unknown
128 MB / 10,240 MB Viewer events / origin events
Code / package size
512 KB compressed / 1 MB uncompressed Per EdgeWorker
50 MB compressed Per function
Request / response size
16,384 characters respondWith()
Unknown

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
Group and role permissions EdgeWorker IDs
IAM permissions, execution roles, and service-linked roles Lambda@Edge
Audit Logging
Unknown
CloudTrail management events and CloudWatch edge logs Edge logs are best effort
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