Amazon Cloudfront Functions vs Akamai EdgeWorkers

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

Features

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Service Types

Functions
Edge Compute

Akamai EdgeWorkers
Service Types

Functions
Edge Compute

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Functions Runtimes

JavaScript

Akamai EdgeWorkers
Functions Runtimes

JavaScript

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
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
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Global
Regions
13
Points of Presence
600+

Akamai EdgeWorkers
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Global
Regions
NA, LATAM, EU, APAC
Points of Presence
11, 2, 6, 6

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

Compare Features, Languages, Execution Limits and Alternatives

Service Types

Installable Platform
Functions
Containers
Database
PaaS
IaC
Edge Compute
Local Emulator
API as a Service

Functions Runtimes

JavaScript

Container Runtimes

Docker
Docker Private Registry
Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes

Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

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

Compliance

Certificates

Regional Availability

Global
Deployment Scope
Global
13
Regions
NA, LATAM, EU, APAC
600+
Points of Presence
11, 2, 6, 6

Sustainabilty

Green Energy