Akamai Edge Workers compared to Azion Edge Functions

Akamai Edge Workers
Versus
Azion Edge Functions

Features

Edge Features of Akamai Edge Workers compared to Azion Edge Functions
Akamai Edge WorkersFeaturesAzion Edge Functions
Functions / Serverless
JavaScript, possibly Python (1 example with Python code in their repo)Functions supported languagesjavascript and lua
Worker.js Environment
NoDocker support
Docker private registry
Kubernetes support
Managed Kubernetes
Over 4100 POPs worldwideAvailability regionsAzion has plenty of pops in Latin America, and a few in western European and Northern America
Default Memory (MB)
Maximum Memory (MB)
Execution Time (ms)
Maximum Execution Time (ms)
Request Payload (MB)
Response Payload (MB)
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions


Akamai Edge Workers


Akamai, the 800-pound gorilla in the CDN jungle, has joined the Edge Compute movement by launching their Edge Worker solution in 2021. Leveraging Akamai’s gigantic network creates an attractive edge solution for those in need of large scale edge compute. Apps can be found on the Akamai Marketplace in case you don’t want to develop your own applications from scratch

Azion Edge Functions


Azion has been around for over a decade.

Traditionally a cloud hosting provider, Azion has increased their offerings at a steady rate thoughout their years of existance.

their serverless platform is in it’s infancy days at the time of writing (early 2021), with 2 supported languages and just a limited set of accessible runtime variables.

The documentation isn’t comprehensive as one would hope.

Anyone with local compute requirements in the LATAM space would incriminate themselves not considering Azion as their supplier.