AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs CoreWeave Sandboxes
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 720 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
CoreWeave Sandboxescoreweave
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.252 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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