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Digital Ocean Functions compared to Amazon Lambda @ Edge

Digital Ocean Functions
Versus
Amazon Lambda @ Edge

Features

Edge Features of Digital Ocean Functions compared to Amazon Lambda @ Edge
Digital Ocean FunctionsFeaturesAmazon Lambda @ Edge
Functions / Serverless
Go, Javascript, Php, PythonFunctions supported languagesjavascript, go, C/++, .NET, Node.js, PHP, python, ruby
Worker.js Environment
Docker supportYes, through EC2 Container Registry (ECR)
Docker private registry
Kubernetes support
Managed Kubernetes
New York, USA and Frankfurt, GermanyAvailability regionsAll compute pops
Default Memory (MB)128
Maximum Memory (MB)128
Execution Time (ms)5,000
Maximum Execution Time (ms)30,000
Request Payload (MB)50
Response Payload (MB).04
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

Digital Ocean Functions

Digital Ocean has earned users trust over the many years of service. Founded in 2011, and already traded publically on the New York Stock Exchange since 2021. Digital Ocean has a great blog with many useful articles, which is why they are so well known in the developer community.

Once the underdog, and now David turned Goliath, Digital Ocean offers it all and has truly grown into a major market player when it comes to cloud infrastructure on a global scale.

Digital Ocean Functions offers seamless database integration and offers support for a couple of unique features like unit testing for your Functions. Interestingly Digital Ocean is one of the first Functions providers who are verbal on which version of prograamming language they support. Some programming languages like Python are backward incompatible. DO’s Functions supports Python 3.

Noteworthy customers of Digital Ocean Functions are currently unknown.

Amazon Lambda @ Edge

Amazon Lambda at the Edge functions introduced serverless cloud computing to the masses as early as 2014.

Being the first with a massive user-base has set up Amazon for great success, it took a few years for competitors to offer similar functionality and to actually call the FaaS space a new chapter in cloud compute in general.

Amazon’s Lambda@Edge is Amazon’s first Edge Compute product, however Amazon recently released CloudFront Functions, which brings the compute a lot closer to the end-user.

With Amazon’s gigantic scale, a shift has started with companies that are on the AWS platform to move more and more of their infrastructure to serverless.

Comparisons