AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Containarium Cloud
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Containarium Cloud runs containers.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Containarium Cloud
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free tier
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Containarium Cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Containarium Cloud: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Containarium Cloud: Included
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Containarium Cloud: Container
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
Containarium Cloudcontainarium
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Containarium Cloud: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Containarium Cloud: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Free tier
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Containarium Cloud: Container
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: MCP
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Containarium Cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Containarium Cloud: $0.020
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Containarium Cloud: $0.040
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Containarium Cloud: $0.080
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 pause and resume.
Containarium Cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need ISO 27001.
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