AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Prime Sandboxes
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Prime Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Prime Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Prime Sandboxesdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Prime Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
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.
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 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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