AWS Lambda

Functions 4.7/10

Pay-per-use: $0.20/M requests plus duration in 1ms increments per GB-second. Free tier 1M requests + 400,000 GB-seconds/month. Arm/Graviton2 up to ~20% cheaper.

AWS Lambda scores 4.7/10 for free value in Functions. The main constraint: Free tier of 1M requests + 400,000 GB-seconds/month; then $0.20 per 1M requests + ~$0.0000166667 per GB-second (x86, per-use in 1ms increments). Arm/Graviton2 up to ~20% cheaper.

Category Functions Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.7 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4.7/10

value = 4.7/100

weighted_components_v1

Invocation value 1/10

value = 0.01 $/mo

fixed_log_v1

Runtime fit 8/10

value = 8/100

policy_score_v1

Deploy friction 8.8/10

value = 8.8/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

$0.20/M req

$16.7n/GB-s

What you get

Free tier of 1M requests + 400,000 GB-seconds/month; then $0.20 per 1M requests + ~$0.0000166667 per GB-second (x86, per-use in 1ms increments). Arm/Graviton2 up to ~20% cheaper.

~5M requests per $1 (requests alone); ~60,000 GB-seconds (~16.7 hours at 1GB) per $1 of duration. Deep free tier and ecosystem integration raise effec

Gotchas

No gotchas documented yet. Contribute one if you know a constraint we missed.

Sources

"The AWS Lambda free tier includes one million free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month, usable for functions powered by both x86, and Graviton2 processors"
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
"Requests: $0.20 per 1 million requests ... Duration: $0.0000097222 per GB-second"
https://cloudchipr.com/blog/aws-lambda-pricing

paid value serverless-functions

Open service ← All Functions

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