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Comparison

AWS Lambda Functions vs Vercel

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

Comparison space

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Platform

Hosting model
Managed
Managed
Services
CDN
CDN
Compute
Compute
Databases
Databases
Functions
Functions
Key-Value Store
Key-Value Store
Object Storage
Object Storage
Workflows
Workflows
Workloads
AI Inference
AI Inference
APIs
APIs
Backend Services
Backend Services
Data Processing
Data Processing
Edge Request Processing
Edge Request Processing
Real-Time Applications
Real-Time Applications
Scheduled Jobs
Scheduled Jobs
Static Sites
Static Sites
Web Applications
Web Applications
Capabilities
Compute Autoscaling
Compute Autoscaling
Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment Rollbacks
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Deployment Traffic Splitting
Preview Environments
Preview Environments
Scale to Zero
Scale to Zero
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments

Development & Execution

Deployment & packaging
Docker / OCI
Docker / OCI
Local Emulator
Local Emulator
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
.NET Runtime
Bun
Bun
Custom Runtime
Custom Runtime
JVM
JVM
Node.js
Node.js
V8 Isolates
V8 Isolates
WebAssembly
WebAssembly
Languages
C#
C#
Go
Go
Java
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
Ruby
Ruby
Rust
Rust
TypeScript
TypeScript
Triggers
Database Events
Database Events
Direct Invocation
Direct Invocation
Edge Events
Edge Events
Event Streams
Event Streams
HTTP Requests
HTTP Requests
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Publish-Subscribe Topics
Queue Messages
Queue Messages
Scheduled Invocation
Scheduled Invocation
Storage Events
Storage Events

Pricing

Billing basis
Resource based AWS Lambda On-Demand Usage
Plan based Vercel Plans
Requests / executions
  • Requests — $0.20 · per 1 million requests
  • Edge Requests — From $2 · per additional million requests
  • Fluid compute invocations — $0.60 · per additional million invocations
Compute
  • x86 execution duration — $0.0000166667 · per GB-second
  • Fluid compute Active CPU — From $0.128 · per CPU-hour
  • Fluid compute provisioned memory — From $0.0106 · per GB-hour
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances
Free plan Available in public plans

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Amazon Web Services
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Placement: Customer-Selected
Availability footprint
  • 38 Regions
  • Vercel Functions: 20 Regions
  • Vercel CDN: 126+ PoPs (Lower Bound)

Resource & Execution Limits

Execution time
15 minutes Per invocation
Unknown
Memory
128-10,240 MB Per function
Unknown
Concurrency
1,000 Default regional account quota
Unknown
Request payload
6 MB request / 6 MB response Per invocation
4.5 MB Request or response

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
IAM execution roles, identity policies and resource policies
Team and project roles Advanced and security roles vary by Pro/Enterprise
Audit Logging
AWS CloudTrail management events Some data-event coverage requires configuration
Unknown
Single Sign-On
Unknown
SAML Pro and Enterprise
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
AWS Secrets Manager integration Separate AWS service; customer IAM configuration required
Encrypted environment variables Vercel projects, builds and Functions
Encryption at Rest
AWS-managed encryption; customer-managed KMS keys supported Coverage depends on Lambda data type
Unknown
Network isolation & protection
Private Networking
Customer VPC access Functions still run in a Lambda-managed VPC
Unknown
Network Isolation
Unknown
Secure Compute private isolated environment Enterprise
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
HIPAA eligible Executed AWS BAA and customer controls required
Eligible use Signed BAA required; eligible Pro or Enterprise account; customer safeguards apply
FedRAMP
Class C / Class D East/West / GovCloud respectively
Unknown
SOC Reports
Unknown
SOC 2 Type II Vercel platform; connected third-party services require separate review