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Comparison

AWS Lambda@Edge vs Akamai EdgeWorkers

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Platform

Delivery
Managed
Managed
Services
CDN
CDN
Edge Functions
Edge Functions
Key-Value Store
Key-Value Store
Workloads
Edge Request Processing
Edge Request Processing
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment Rollbacks
Preview Environments
Preview Environments

Development & Execution

Runtimes
Node.js
Node.js
V8 Isolates
V8 Isolates
Languages
JavaScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
TypeScript
TypeScript
Triggers
Edge Events
Edge Events
HTTP Requests
HTTP Requests

Pricing

Billing basis
Resource based AWS Lambda@Edge Usage
Resource based EdgeWorkers Resource Tiers and Billing
Requests / executions
  • Lambda@Edge requests — $0.60 · per 1 million requests
  • Invoked events — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
Compute
  • Lambda@Edge duration — $0.00000625125 · per 128 MB-second
  • Basic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
  • Dynamic Compute — Contact Akamai · per million events invoked per month
Free entry / commitment
Lambda@Edge is billed by request and execution duration CloudFront distribution, request, and data-transfer charges remain separate.
Existing Akamai customers can add a free Evaluation tier without a time limit; other users can request an EdgeWorkers free trial.

Infrastructure & Availability

Execution & locality
  • Execution: Edge
  • Scope: Global
  • Execution: Edge
  • Scope: Global
Provider / network
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Own Network
Availability footprint
Unknown
  • 4,400+ PoPs

Resource & Execution Limits

CPU / execution time
30 seconds Per invocation
Unknown
Memory
128 MB / 10,240 MB Viewer events / origin events
Unknown
Code / package size
50 MB compressed Per function
512 KB compressed / 1 MB uncompressed Per EdgeWorker
Request / response size
Unknown
16,384 characters respondWith()

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
IAM permissions, execution roles, and service-linked roles Lambda@Edge
Group and role permissions EdgeWorker IDs
Audit Logging
CloudTrail management events and CloudWatch edge logs Edge logs are best effort
Unknown
Assurances & programs
ISO Certifications
Unknown
ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 & 27018 EdgeWorkers on Secure CDN with Enhanced TLS
PCI DSS
Unknown
Level 1 Secure CDN with Enhanced TLS; EdgeKV excluded