AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs BoxLite Cloud
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
BoxLite Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
BoxLite Cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- BoxLite Cloud:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
BoxLite Cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You need snapshots.
BoxLite Cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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