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Amazon Cloudfront Functions vs AWS Lambda@Edge

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

Features

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Category

Hosted
FaaS
Edge

AWS Lambda@Edge
Category

Hosted
FaaS
Edge

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Supported Runtimes

JavaScript
Node.js
Python

AWS Lambda@Edge
Supported Runtimes

JavaScript
Node.js
Python

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@Edge
Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

Min. Memory
128 MB
Max. Memory
10 GB
Default Timeout
5 sec
Max. Timeout
30 sec
Request Payload
6 MB
Response Payload
6 MB

Amazon Cloudfront Functions
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Global
Regions
13
Points of Presence
600+

AWS Lambda@Edge
Regional Availability

Deployment Scope
Global
Regions
N/A
Points of Presence
600+

Alternatives are matched by platform types, use cases, programming languages and deployment options

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

JavaScript
Node.js
Python

Supported Frameworks

Supported Frameworks

Execution Limits and Resource Quotas

2 MB
Min. Memory
128 MB
2 MB
Max. Memory
10 GB
Default Timeout
5 sec
~1 ms
Max. Timeout
30 sec
10 KB
Request Payload
6 MB
10 KB
Response Payload
6 MB

Compliance

Certificates

Regional Availability

Global
Deployment Scope
Global
13
Regions
600+
Points of Presence
600+

Sustainabilty

Green Energy

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

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