AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Thunder Sandboxes
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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