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Amazon Cloudfront Functions vs AWS Lambda
Compare Categories, Runtimes, Pricing, Regions and Alternatives

Features

Amazon Cloudfront Functions 
Category

Hosted
FaaS
Edge

AWS Lambda 
Category

Hosted
FaaS
Edge

Amazon Cloudfront Functions 
Supported Runtimes

.Net
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Node.js
PowerShell
Python
Ruby
Rust
TypeScript

AWS Lambda 
Supported Runtimes

.Net
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Node.js
PowerShell
Python
Ruby
Rust
TypeScript

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

AWS Lambda 
Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

Min. Memory
128 MB
Max. Memory
10 GB
Default Timeout
5 s
Max. Timeout
900 s
Request Payload
6 MB
Response Payload
6 MB

Amazon Cloudfront Functions 
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Global
Regions
13
Points of Presence
600+

AWS Lambda 
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Regional
Regions
25
Points of Presence
N/A

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Compare Features, Languages, Execution Limits and Alternatives

Category
Decentralized
Hosted
Self Hosted
BaaS
FaaS
Compute
CaaS
Docker
Managed K8s
DBaaS
KV Store
PaaS
IaC
Edge
Emulator
API Gateway
Container Deployment
Docker
Docker Private Registry
Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes
WebAssembly
Supported Runtimes
.Net
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Node.js
PowerShell
Python
Ruby
Rust
TypeScript
Supported Frameworks
Supported Frameworks
Execution Limits and Resource Quotas
2 MB
Min. Memory
128 MB
2 MB
Max. Memory
10 GB
Default Timeout
5 s
~1 ms
Max. Timeout
900 s
10 KB
Request Payload
6 MB
10 KB
Response Payload
6 MB
Compliance
Certificates
Regional Availability
Global
Deployment Scope
Regional
13
Regions
25
600+
Points of Presence
N/A
Sustainabilty
Green Energy

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