| Vercel | Features | Amazon Lambda @ Edge |
|---|---|---|
| Functions / Serverless | ||
| Node.js, Go, Python, Ruby | Functions supported languages | javascript, go, C/++, .NET, Node.js, PHP, python, ruby |
| Worker.js Environment | ||
| Docker support | Yes, through EC2 Container Registry (ECR) | |
| Docker private registry | ||
| Kubernetes support | ||
| Managed Kubernetes | ||
| 23 Edge locations | Availability regions | All compute pops |
| 1024 | Default Memory (MB) | 128 |
| 3008 | Maximum Memory (MB) | 128 |
| 10,000 | Execution Time (ms) | 5,000 |
| 900,000 | Maximum Execution Time (ms) | 30,000 |
| 5 | Request Payload (MB) | 50 |
| 5 | Response Payload (MB) | .04 |
| Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown | ||
Formerly known as ZEIT, Vercel has a lot to offer in the serverless movement.
ZEIT was one of the pioneering companies at the time pushing Serverless technology. ZEIT’s first focus was to ease deployments, which resulted in the creation of Next.js.
Some of Vercel’s customers include AirBnB, Auth0, GitHub and the Washington Post.
Vercel announced a whopping $21M Series A funding early 2020.
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.
