AWS Lambda Functions vs DigitalOcean 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
Workloads
APIs
Supported
APIs
Supported
Backend Services
Not supported
Backend Services
Supported
Background Workers
Not supported
Background Workers
Supported
Data Processing
Supported
Data Processing
Not supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Web Applications
Not supported
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Supported
Deployment Rollbacks
Not recorded
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Supported
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Not recorded
Scale to Zero
Supported
Scale to Zero
Supported
Development & Execution
Deployment & packaging
Docker / OCI
Supported
Docker / OCI
Not supported
Local Emulator
Supported
Local Emulator
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
Supported
.NET Runtime
Not supported
Custom Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Not supported
JVM
Supported
JVM
Not supported
Node.js
Supported
Node.js
Supported
Languages
C#
Supported
C#
Not supported
Go
Supported
Go
Supported
Java
Supported
Java
Not supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
PHP
Not supported
PHP
Supported
Python
Supported
Python
Supported
Ruby
Supported
Ruby
Not supported
Rust
Supported
Rust
Not supported
TypeScript
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
Triggers
Database Events
Supported
Database Events
Not supported
Direct Invocation
Supported
Direct Invocation
Supported
Event Streams
Supported
Event Streams
Not supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
HTTP Requests
Supported
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Supported
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Not supported
Queue Messages
Supported
Queue Messages
Not supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Scheduled Invocation
Supported
Storage Events
Supported
Storage Events
Not supported
Pricing
Billing basis
Resource based
Resource based
Requests / executions
- Requests — $0.20 · per 1 million requests
Unknown
Compute
- x86 execution duration — $0.0000166667 · per GB-second
- Compute — $0.0000185 · per GiB-second beyond the monthly allowance
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances
Recurring free allowances
Infrastructure & Availability
Infrastructure provider
- Amazon Web Services
- DigitalOcean
Execution & placement
- Execution: Single Region
- Execution: Multi Region
- Scope: Regional
- Execution: Single Region
- Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
- 38 Regions
Unknown
Resource & Execution Limits
Execution time
15 minutes
15 minutes
Memory
128-10,240 MB
128 MB-1 GB
Concurrency
1,000
120
Request payload
6 MB request / 6 MB response
1 MB input / 1 MB result
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Access Control
IAM execution roles, identity policies and resource policies
Revocable namespace access keys and authenticated web functions
Audit Logging
AWS CloudTrail management events
Unknown
Encryption & secrets
Encryption at Rest
AWS-managed encryption; customer-managed KMS keys supported
Function code and sensitive parameters
Secrets Management
AWS Secrets Manager integration
Unknown
Encryption in Transit
Unknown
HTTPS/TLS function endpoints
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Customer VPC access
Unknown
Network Isolation
Unknown
Dedicated networking and compute safeguards
Assurances & programs
FedRAMP
Class C / Class D
Unknown
HIPAA
HIPAA eligible
Unknown
SOC Reports
Unknown
SOC 2 Type II