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Based on 310 reviews and ratings
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Based on 7 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- CloudFoundry ranks higher in 1 feature set: Platform-as-a-Service
Platform-as-a-Service
8.6
AWS Lambda
86%

9.8
CloudFoundry
98%
AWS Lambda ranks higher in 6/11 features
AWS Lambda ranks higher in 6/11 features
Ease of building user interfaces
7.9
79%
24 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Scalability
9.3
93%
48 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating
Platform management overhead
8.7
87%
44 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Workflow engine capability
8.6
86%
40 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Platform access control
8.1
81%
43 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Services-enabled integration
8.9
89%
47 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Development environment creation
8.5
85%
42 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Development environment replication
8.5
85%
40 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Issue monitoring and notification
8.6
86%
44 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Issue recovery
8.6
86%
36 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Upgrades and platform fixes
9.0
90%
37 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Attribute Ratings
- CloudFoundry is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
AWS Lambda
89%
48 Ratings

10.0
CloudFoundry
100%
1 Rating
Usability
9.0
AWS Lambda
90%
13 Ratings

CloudFoundry
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
8.6
AWS Lambda
86%
33 Ratings

CloudFoundry
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Lambda
[AWS Lambda] is very well suited for the projects that doesn't have any infra but needs it where short running processes are required. But if your application need to run continuously than this might not be the very apt tool for you.
Data Analyst
PaytmFinancial Services, 5001-10,000 employees
CloudFoundry
It's well suited if:
- The organization has large number of applications that needs to be deployed frequently.
- The organization is tied to the DevOps mindset.
- The organization has programs in different languages.
- The applications does not need EJB's support that servers like web logic provide.
- The applications needs security configuration within the same CloudFoundry instance.
- The organization, for whatever reason does not want developers to manage the instances.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Pros
AWS Lambda
- Lambda provides multiple methods for triggering functions, this includes AWS resources and services and external triggers like APIs and CLI calls.
- The compute provided my Lambda is largely hands off for operations teams. Once the function is deployed, the management overhead is minimal since there are no servers to maintain.
- Lambda's pricing can be very cost effective given that users are only charged for the time the function runs and associated costs like network or storage if those are used. A function that executes quickly and is not called often can cost next to nothing.
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees
CloudFoundry
- Support for Orgs and Spaces that allow for managing users and deployables within a large organization.
- Easy deployment, deploying code is as simple as executing single line from CLI, thanks to build-packs.
- Solid and rich CLI, that allows for various operations on the instance.
- Isolated Virtual Machines called Droplets, that provide clean run time environment for the code. This used to be a problem with Weblogic and other application servers, where multiple applications are run on the same cluster and they share resources.
- SSH capability for the droplet (isolated VM's are called droplets), that allows for real time viewing of the App code while the application is running.
- Support for multiple languages, thanks to build-packs.
- Support for horizontal scaling, scaling an instance horizontally is a breeze.
- Support for configuring environment variable using the service bindings.
- Supports memory and disk space limit allocation for individual applications.
- Supports API's as well as workers (processes without endpoints)
- Supports blue-green deployment with minimal down time
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Cons
AWS Lambda
- Putting a significant portion of your codebase into AWS Lambda and taking advantage of the high level of integration with other AWS services comes with the risk of vendor lock-in.
- While the AWS Lambda environment is "not your problem," it's also not at your disposal to extend or modify, nor does it preserve state between function executions.
- AWS Lambda functions are subject to strict time limitations, and will be aborted if they exceed five minutes of execution time. This can be a problem for some longer-running tasks that are otherwise well-suited to serverless delivery.
Technical Project Manager
California State University, NorthridgeEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
CloudFoundry
- Does not support stateful containers and that would be a nice to have.
- Supports showing logs, but does not persist the logs anywhere. This makes relying on Cloud Foundry's logs very unreliable. The logs have to be persisted using other third party tools like Elk and Kibana.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
AWS Lambda
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$2.1e-9 Per 1 ms
AWS Lambda Editions & Modules
Edition
128 MB | $0.00000000211 |
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1024 MB | $0.00000001671 |
10240 MB | $0.00000016671 |
- Per 1 ms
Additional Pricing Details
—CloudFoundry
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—CloudFoundry Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda 9.0
Based on 13 answers
I give it a seven is usability because it's AWS. Their UI's are always clunkier than the competition and their documentation is rather cumbersome. There's SO MUCH to dig through and it's a gamble if you actually end up finding the corresponding info if it will actually help. Like I said before, going to google with a specific problem is likely a better route because AWS is quite ubiquitous and chances are you're not the first to encounter the problem. That being said, using SAM (Serverless application model) and it's SAM Local environment makes running local instances of your Lambdas in dev environments painless and quite fun. Using Nodejs + Lambda + SAM Local + VS Code debugger = AWESOME.

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Fund-Raising Company, 1-10 employeesCloudFoundry
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda 8.6
Based on 33 answers
I have not needed support for AWS Lambda, since it is already using Python, which has resources all over the internet. AWS blog posts have information about how to install some libraries, which is necessary for some more complex operations, but this is available online and didn't require specific customer support for.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesCloudFoundry
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
AWS Lambda
Azure Functions is another product that provides lambda functionality, but the documentation for some of Azure's products is quite hard to read. Additionally, AWS Lambda was one of the first cloud computing products on a large cloud service that implemented lambda functions, so they have had the most time to develop the product, increase the quality of service, and extend functionality to more languages. Amazon, by far, has the best service for Lambda that I know.
Co-Founder/CEO
aspace, Inc.Computer Software, 1-10 employees
CloudFoundry
While Docker shines in providing support for volumes and stateful instances, Cloud foundry shines in providing support for deploying stateless services.Heroku shines in integrating with Git and using commits to git as hooks to trigger deployments right from the command line. But it does not provide on-premise solution that Cloud foundry provides.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
AWS Lambda
- I was able to perform a lot of processing on data delivered from my website and little or no cost. This was a big plus to me.
- Programming AWS Lambda is quite easy once you understand the time limits to the functions.
- AWS Lambda has really good integration with the AWS S3 storage system. This a very good method of delivering data to be processed and a good place to pick it up after processing.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Research Company, 1001-5000 employeesCloudFoundry
- Positive impact, since it simplifies the deployment time by a huge margin. Without cloud foundry, deploying a code needs coordination with infrastructure teams, while with cloud foundry, its a simple one line command. This reduces the deployment time from at least few hours to few minutes. Faster deployments promote faster dev cycle iterations.
- Code maintenance such as upgrading a Node or Java version is as simple as updating the build-pack. Without cloud foundry, using web logic, the specific version only supports a specific version of Java. So updating the version involves upgrading the version of web logic that needs to involve few teams. So without cloud foundry, it takes at least few days, with cloud foundry, its a matter of few mins.
- Overall, happier Developers and thats harder to quantify.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees