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AWS Lambda vs AWS Lambda@Edge

On the evidence we track, AWS Lambda leads this comparison with a composite score of 76/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★AWS Lambda76
AWS Lambda@Edge66
Score
vioscaleAI score
AWS Lambda76 / 100medium · 72%
AWS Lambda@Edge66 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tier
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Model
AWS Lambdacommercial
AWS Lambda@Edgefreemium
Price level
AWS Lambdalow
AWS Lambda@Edgelow
Starting price
AWS Lambda$1
AWS Lambda@Edge–
Transparent
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Integrations
Count
AWS Lambda220
AWS Lambda@Edge2
Security
Disclosure policy
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Fedramp
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Gdpr
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Hipaa
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Iso27001
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Pci
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Soc2
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
AWS Lambda7 items
AWS Lambda@Edge5 items

Capabilities

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

Core
Execution substrate
AWS LambdaMicroVM
AWS Lambda@EdgeMicroVM
Language / runtime breadth
AWS LambdaPython, Node.js, Java, C#, Go, Ruby, custom runtimes
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Reach
Runs at global edge PoPs
AWS Lambda-
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Scale
Scale to zero
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Performance
Cold-start profile
AWS LambdaProvisioned concurrency
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Limits
Max execution duration
AWS Lambda-
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Integration
Event source breadth
AWS Lambda220+ AWS services including S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS, API calls, event streams
AWS Lambda@EdgeCloudFront events (viewer request, viewer response, origin request, origin respo
HTTP endpoint trigger
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓
Cron / scheduled invocations
AWS Lambda-
AWS Lambda@Edge✗
State
Durable state / workflow primitive
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Flexibility
Bring-your-own runtime / container
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge-
Deployment
Hosting
AWS LambdaCloud only
AWS Lambda@EdgeCloud only
Ops
Built-in logs / metrics / tracing
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✗
Extensibility
CLI + IaC / framework support
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge-

What each one is

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

AWS Lambda

Leader

AWS service providing serverless infrastructure for AI agents and language models, with integrated knowledge base capabilities for retrieval-augmented generation, automated data processing, and model fine-tuning.

Independently observed

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

Pricing

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

AWS Lambda

Leader
from $1/API callsUsage-based

Usage-based pricing per token and per API call; fine-tuning $0.005/image; knowledge base $0.010/page

  • Standard$1 per 1000 API calls
  • Flex-
  • Priority-
  • Reserved-
as of verify ↗

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 ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge–
CLI
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AWS Lambda✓
AWS Lambda@Edge✓

Integrations

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

AWS Lambda

Leader
17 total
  • AWS S3
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • AWS Kinesis
  • AWS SQS
  • AWS EventBridge
  • Amazon MSK
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • AWS X-Ray
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Apache Kafka
  • Amazon SQS
  • Amazon DynamoDB Streams
  • S3
  • SharePoint
  • Confluence
Independently observed

AWS Lambda@Edge

2 total
  • CloudFront
  • Kinesis
Independently observed
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