AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Cloudflare Sandbox
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Cloudflare Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- None
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Cloudflare Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
Cloudflare Sandboxdevelopers
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Cloudflare Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Cloudflare Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You need pause and resume.
Cloudflare Sandbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.180 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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