# AWS Lambda@Edge vs Knative

| Attribute | AWS Lambda@Edge | Knative |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 55.9 (63% (medium)) | 54.7 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 11 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 446 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 6,086 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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 | Open-source platform for deploying and auto-scaling containerized serverless applications on Kubernetes with integrated event routing and HTTP/gRPC serving. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","triggers":"CloudFront events (viewer request, viewer response, origin request, origin respo","http_trigger":true,"scale_to_zero":true,"scheduled_cron":false,"edge_distributed":true,"observability_builtin":false}` | `{"hosting":"self","triggers":"HTTP, CloudEvents, Kubernetes event sources","languages":"Any language via containerized HTTP/gRPC services","cold_start":"high","cli_and_iac":true,"http_trigger":true,"scale_to_zero":true,"custom_runtime":true,"runtime_substrate":"container","observability_builtin":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 5 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"CloudFront"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"AWS SQS"},{"name":"AWS DynamoDB Streams"},{"name":"Apache Camel"},{"name":"Istio"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | - | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","summary":"Pay-per-use based on compute time consumed; no charge when code is not running","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_sgm","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:04:40.446Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://knative.dev","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T09:25:30.744Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 6 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.23.0","date":"2026-07-29T09:58:30Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.23.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.22.1","date":"2026-06-02T12:06:30Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.22.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.21.3","date":"2026-06-02T12:06:29Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.21.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.22.0","date":"2026-04-28T22:48:57Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.22.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.21.2","date":"2026-03-24T11:28:14Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.21.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.21.1","date":"2026-02-24T11:30:05Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.21.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.20.3","date":"2026-02-24T11:36:40Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.20.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.19.9","date":"2026-01-28T16:43:51Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.19.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.21.0","date":"2026-01-27T11:40:37Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.21.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.20.2","date":"2026-01-27T11:38:03Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.20.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.20.1","date":"2025-12-25T05:43:18Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.20.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.19.8","date":"2025-12-23T11:37:11Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.19.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.20.0","date":"2025-10-29T10:19:44Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.20.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.19.7","date":"2025-10-24T01:13:10Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.19.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.18.2","date":"2025-10-24T01:15:27Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.18.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.19.6","date":"2025-09-16T11:37:26Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.19.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.19.5","date":"2025-09-09T11:32:10Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.19.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.19.4","date":"2025-09-02T11:38:06Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.19.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.19.3","date":"2025-09-02T03:29:43Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.19.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.19.2","date":"2025-08-26T11:37:33Z","type":"stable","version":"knative-v1.19.2"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 8 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=knative.dev%2Fserving&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` |

## Capabilities (Serverless & Edge Platforms)

| Capability | AWS Lambda@Edge | Knative |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Execution substrate | - | Container |
| Language / runtime breadth | - | Any language via containerized HTTP/gRPC services |
| **Reach** |  |  |
| Runs at global edge PoPs | ✓ | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Scale to zero | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Performance** |  |  |
| Cold-start profile | - | High (VM / container) |
| **Limits** |  |  |
| Max execution duration | - | - |
| **Integration** |  |  |
| Event source breadth | CloudFront events (viewer request, viewer response, origin request, origin respo | HTTP, CloudEvents, Kubernetes event sources |
| HTTP endpoint trigger | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cron / scheduled invocations | ✗ | - |
| **State** |  |  |
| Durable state / workflow primitive | - | - |
| **Flexibility** |  |  |
| Bring-your-own runtime / container | - | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Self-hosted only |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Built-in logs / metrics / tracing | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| CLI + IaC / framework support | - | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:45:20.440Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*