What users are saying about

AWS Lambda vs IBM Cloud Functions

AWS Lambda
Top Rated
310 Ratings
IBM Cloud Functions
54 Ratings

AWS Lambda

Top Rated
310 Ratings
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Score 8.9 out of 100

Based on 310 reviews and ratings

IBM Cloud Functions

54 Ratings
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Score 6.6 out of 100

Based on 54 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

  • AWS Lambda ranks higher in 1 feature set: Platform-as-a-Service

Platform-as-a-Service

8.6

AWS Lambda

86%
4.0

IBM Cloud Functions

40%
AWS Lambda ranks higher in 11/11 features
AWS Lambda ranks higher in 11/11 features

Ease of building user interfaces

7.9
79%
24 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings

Scalability

9.3
93%
48 Ratings
4.0
40%
7 Ratings

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
N/A
0 Ratings

Development environment replication

8.5
85%
40 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings

Issue monitoring and notification

8.6
86%
44 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings

Issue recovery

8.6
86%
36 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings

Upgrades and platform fixes

9.0
90%
37 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • AWS Lambda is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

8.9

AWS Lambda

89%
48 Ratings
3.0

IBM Cloud Functions

30%
7 Ratings

Usability

9.0

AWS Lambda

90%
13 Ratings

IBM Cloud Functions

N/A
0 Ratings

Support Rating

8.6

AWS Lambda

86%
33 Ratings

IBM Cloud Functions

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.

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Ojas Elawadhi | TrustRadius Reviewer
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IBM Cloud Functions

IBM Cloud Functions [is] not the worse product on the IBM cloud. I decided to write this review as I thought it would be balanced. I would still use functions to set up a serverless architecture where execution time is pretty quick and the code is relatively simple.I wouldn't use IBM Cloud Functions for async calls obviously, as costs could be higher. The functions documentation is lacking in terms of CI/CD, and there are unexplainable errors occurring - like the network connection that I mentioned. So I wouldn't just rely on IBM Cloud Functions too much for the entire system, but make sure it's diversified.

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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.

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IBM Cloud Functions

  • Great substitute for a simple API calls to run non-complicated code.
  • Easy way to run Python/Java/Javascript to get something done.
  • File validation.

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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.

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IBM Cloud Functions

  • Billing can be a hassle, not the most responsive customer service/support team
  • Handles & executes most functionalities, but other platforms offer more scalability if you're seeking consistent and stable growth

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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
1024 MB$0.00000001671
10240 MB$0.00000016671
  1. Per 1 ms
Additional Pricing Details
—

IBM Cloud Functions

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0

IBM Cloud Functions Editions & Modules

Edition
Basic Cloud Functions Rate$0.000171
API Gateway RateFree
  1. per second of execution
  2. none
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.

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IBM Cloud Functions

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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IBM Cloud Functions

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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IBM Cloud Functions

  • ICF is a lightweight service and does not require runtime configurations
  • Scalable on demand and hence there is no need to pay for runtime costs

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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.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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IBM Cloud Functions

  • It directly affected our expenses since we do not need to deploy and maintain a set of separate applications.
  • It allowed us to pay for only the amount of time cloud functions run.
  • It saved on maintenance and monitoring of the applications it replaced.

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