Alibaba Cloud Function Compute vs AWS Lambda Functions
Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.
Comparison space
Updated
Comparison facts
Platform
Hosting model
Managed
Supported
Managed
Supported
Services
Functions
Supported
Functions
Supported
GPU Compute
Supported
GPU Compute
Not supported
Workloads
AI Inference
Supported
AI Inference
Not supported
APIs
Supported
APIs
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Backend Services
Not supported
Background Workers
Supported
Background Workers
Not supported
Data Processing
Supported
Data Processing
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Supported
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Supported
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Supported
Scale to Zero
Supported
Scale to Zero
Supported
Development & Execution
Deployment & packaging
Docker / OCI
Supported
Docker / OCI
Supported
Local Emulator
Supported
Local Emulator
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
Supported
.NET Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Supported
JVM
Supported
JVM
Supported
Node.js
Supported
Node.js
Supported
Languages
C#
Supported
C#
Supported
Go
Supported
Go
Supported
Java
Supported
Java
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
PHP
Supported
PHP
Not supported
Python
Supported
Python
Supported
Ruby
Not supported
Ruby
Supported
Rust
Not supported
Rust
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
Triggers
Database Events
Supported
Database Events
Supported
Direct Invocation
Supported
Direct Invocation
Supported
Event Streams
Supported
Event Streams
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Supported
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Supported
Queue Messages
Supported
Queue Messages
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Storage Events
Supported
Storage Events
Supported
Pricing
Billing basis
Resource based
Resource based
Requests / executions
- Function invocations — 75 CUs · per 10,000 invocations
- Requests — $0.20 · per 1 million requests
Compute
- Active CPU and memory — 1 CU per vCPU and 0.15 CU per GB · per second of configured resources
- x86 execution duration — $0.0000166667 · per GB-second
Free entry / commitment
First-time users can claim a Function Compute trial quota for three monthly cycles.
Recurring free allowances
Infrastructure & Availability
Infrastructure provider
- Alibaba Cloud
- Amazon Web Services
Execution & placement
- Execution: Single Region
- Execution: Multi Region
- Scope: Regional
- Execution: Single Region
- Execution: Multi Region
- Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
- 21 Regions
- 38 Regions
Resource & Execution Limits
Execution time
86,400 seconds
15 minutes
Memory
32 GB
128-10,240 MB
Concurrency
1-200
1,000
Request payload
32 MB
6 MB request / 6 MB response
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Access Control
RAM policies and STS temporary credentials
IAM execution roles, identity policies and resource policies
Audit Logging
Unknown
AWS CloudTrail management events
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Unknown
AWS Secrets Manager integration
Encryption at Rest
Unknown
AWS-managed encryption; customer-managed KMS keys supported
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Unknown
Customer VPC access
Assurances & programs
SOC Reports
SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3
Unknown
ISO Certifications
ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701
Unknown
FedRAMP
Unknown
Class C / Class D
HIPAA
Unknown
HIPAA eligible