AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs CreateOS Sandbox
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
CreateOS Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- CreateOS Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
CreateOS Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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