AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs BoxCompute
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
BoxCompute
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- BoxCompute: Included
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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BoxComputeboxcompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- BoxCompute: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- BoxCompute:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
BoxCompute
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- BoxCompute: $0.400
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.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.
BoxCompute fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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