AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs boat
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
boat
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- boat: $0.009
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- boat: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- boat: Free
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- boat: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- boat: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- boat: Full VM
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
boatdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- boat: $0.009
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- boat: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- boat: Free
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- boat: $20 / month
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- boat: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- boat: No limit
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- boat: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- boat: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- boat: Full VM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- boat: No
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- boat:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- boat:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- boat: MCP
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- boat: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- boat: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
boat
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- boat: $0.009
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- boat: $0.018
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- boat: $0.036
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
boat fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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