AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Azure Container Apps Sandboxes costs $0.0864 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Azure Container Apps Sandboxes runs microVMs.
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What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws .amazon .com
Azure Container Apps Sandboxessandboxes .azure .com
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.108
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.216
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.432
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