AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Sandbox as a Service
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
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 pause and resume.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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