AWS Lambda vs Railway
Compare Service Types, Runtimes, Execution Limits, Compliance, Regions and Alternatives
Features
AWS Lambda
Category
Hosted
FaaS
CaaS
DBaaS
PaaS
Railway
Category
Hosted
N/A
FaaS
CaaS
DBaaS
PaaS
AWS Lambda
Container Deployment
Docker
Docker Private Registry
Railway
Container Deployment
Docker
Docker Private Registry
AWS Lambda
Supported Runtimes
.Net
C#
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript
Node.js
PHP
PowerShell
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
TypeScript
Railway
Supported Runtimes
.Net
C#
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript
Node.js
PHP
PowerShell
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
TypeScript
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
Railway
Execution Limits and Resource Quotas
Min. Memory
N/A
Max. Memory
N/A
Default Timeout
N/A
Max. Timeout
N/A
Request Payload
N/A
Response Payload
N/A
AWS Lambda
Regional Availability
Deployment Scope
Regional
Regions
25
Points of Presence
N/A
Railway
Regional Availability
Deployment Scope
Global and Regional
Regions
USA, NL, SIN
Points of Presence
2, 1, 1
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