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AWS Lambda@Edge vs Cloudflare Workers

No clear leader: AWS Lambda@Edge (65.8) and Cloudflare Workers (63.1) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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AWS Lambda@Edge66
Cloudflare Workers63
Score
vioscaleAI score
AWS Lambda@Edge66 / 100medium · 73%
Cloudflare Workers63 / 100low · 14%
Pricing
Free tier
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Model
AWS Lambda@Edgefreemium
Cloudflare Workersopen_source
Price level
AWS Lambda@Edgelow
Cloudflare Workersfree
Transparent
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Integrations
Count
AWS Lambda@Edge2
Cloudflare Workers–
Security
Disclosure policy
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Fedramp
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers–
Gdpr
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Hipaa
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers–
Iso27001
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Pci
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Soc2
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Trust center
Reliability
Sla pct
AWS Lambda@Edge–
Cloudflare Workers100
Status page
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
AWS Lambda@Edge5 items
Cloudflare Workers6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for serverless & edge platforms. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Execution substrate
AWS Lambda@EdgeMicroVM
Cloudflare WorkersV8 isolate
Language / runtime breadth
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Cloudflare WorkersJavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust
Reach
Runs at global edge PoPs
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Scale
Scale to zero
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Performance
Cold-start profile
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Cloudflare WorkersNone (isolate)
Limits
Max execution duration
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Cloudflare Workers-
Integration
Event source breadth
AWS Lambda@EdgeCloudFront events (viewer request, viewer response, origin request, origin respo
Cloudflare WorkersHTTP requests, cron schedules, webhooks, message queues
HTTP endpoint trigger
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✓
Cron / scheduled invocations
AWS Lambda@Edge✗
Cloudflare Workers✓
State
Durable state / workflow primitive
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Cloudflare Workers✓
Flexibility
Bring-your-own runtime / container
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Cloudflare Workers✓
Deployment
Hosting
AWS Lambda@EdgeCloud only
Cloudflare WorkersCloud only
Ops
Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
AWS Lambda@Edge✗
Cloudflare Workers-
Extensibility
CLI + IaC / framework support
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Cloudflare Workers✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

AWS Lambda@Edge

A CloudFront feature that executes serverless code at AWS edge locations worldwide, reducing latency and enabling dynamic content delivery without provisioning or managing origin infrastructure

Independently observed

Cloudflare Workers

A server runtime environment based on Cloudflare Workers' underlying code, designed for self-hosting applications built with JavaScript and WebAssembly. It provides web-platform standard APIs and functions as a programmable HTTP proxy.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

AWS Lambda@Edge

Usage-basedFree tier

Usage-based: $0.20 per million requests; duration costs vary by memory allocation. Free tier: 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month.

as of verify ↗

Cloudflare Workers

from $20/moHybridFree tier

Free tier with per-request and per-CPU metering. General Cloudflare plans from free to $250/mo; Workers add-on services metered separately.

  • FreeFree
    • DNS
    • DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL
    • WAF
    • +3 more
  • Pro$20/mo billed annually or $25/mo billed monthly
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
    • +7 more
  • Business$200/mo billed annually or $250/mo billed monthly
    • Fast DNS
    • Unmetered DDoS Protection
    • CDN
    • Universal SSL Certificate
    • Free Managed Ruleset
    • +8 more
  • ContractContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
macOS
AWS Lambda@Edge–
Cloudflare Workers✓
Windows
AWS Lambda@Edge–
Cloudflare Workers✓
Linux
AWS Lambda@Edge–
Cloudflare Workers✓
CLI
AWS Lambda@Edge–
Cloudflare Workers✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cloudflare Workers✗
Self-hosted
AWS Lambda@Edge✗
Cloudflare Workers✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

AWS Lambda@Edge

2 total
  • CloudFront
  • Kinesis
Independently observed

Cloudflare Workers

Not documented yet.

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