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At a Glance
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Star Rating
(1,082)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (42.2% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Star Rating
(139)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (40.7% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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AWS Lambda vs Kubernetes

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found AWS Lambda easier to use, set up, and administer. However, reviewers felt that both vendors make it equally easy to do business overall.

  • Reviewers felt that Kubernetes meets the needs of their business better than AWS Lambda.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that AWS Lambda is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Kubernetes over AWS Lambda.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
AWS Lambda
No pricing available
Kubernetes
No pricing available
Free Trial
AWS Lambda
No trial information available
Kubernetes
No trial information available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.1
781
9.2
115
Ease of Use
8.6
789
7.8
123
Ease of Setup
8.5
368
7.2
77
Ease of Admin
8.5
332
8.0
68
Quality of Support
8.6
726
8.4
97
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.9
323
8.9
54
Product Direction (% positive)
9.4
726
9.7
111
Features by Category
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)Hide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
8.4
4,442
Not enough data
Development
8.8
387
Not enough data
8.3
384
Not enough data
8.3
388
Not enough data
8.4
376
Not enough data
7.9
374
Not enough data
Database
8.2
307
Not enough data
8.3
311
Not enough data
9.0
344
Not enough data
8.4
296
Not enough data
8.4
305
Not enough data
Infrastructure
8.7
327
Not enough data
8.3
298
Not enough data
8.7
345
Not enough data
Not enough data
9.0
448
Management
Not enough data
8.7
60
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Organization
Not enough data
9.1
57
Not enough data
9.0
61
Not enough data
9.6
62
Development
Not enough data
8.6
48
Not enough data
9.0
61
Not enough data
8.9
48
Not enough data
9.1
51
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
AWS Lambda and Kubernetes share no categories
Unique Categories
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is categorized as Container Orchestration and Container Management
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
22.0%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
35.8%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
42.2%
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
26.7%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
32.6%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
40.7%
Reviewers' Industry
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Computer Software
23.0%
Information Technology and Services
20.0%
Financial Services
8.4%
Retail
2.6%
Internet
2.6%
Other
43.3%
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Computer Software
33.8%
Information Technology and Services
19.9%
Telecommunications
9.6%
Financial Services
5.1%
Internet
3.7%
Other
27.9%
Most Helpful Reviews
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Ashish D.
AD
Ashish D.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services

It can help us to trigger the services and make the execution process faster.

Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User
G
Verified User in Biotechnology

Inability to run Ruby code, applications are limited to short run times and require a variety of services

Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Verified User
G
Verified User in Nanotechnology

Kubernetes is a sweet spot between flexibility and simplicity. Especially service discovery is made very simple. Competitors often are either to simple (Docker compose, swarm, fleet) or too complex (Marathon). Once it is up and running, low-level...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Mike L.
ML
Mike L.
Verified User in Media Production

It's extremely immature (very buggy), the networking is just...painful, the scheduler is dumb and slow; those are my technical dislikes. My personal dislike is the overall lack of cohesive documentation as well as the assertion that just because there...

Alternatives
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda Alternatives
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean
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Google App Engine
Google App Engine
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Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)
Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)
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Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes Alternatives
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
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Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)
Mirantis
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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Kubernetes Engine
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Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
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Discussions
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda Discussions
Is AWS lambda a container?
3 comments
Gana  N.
GN
AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in...Read more
What is AWS Lambda used for?
2 comments
Vishwa R.
VR
It is used to deply applications. It provides serverless environment which means you only pay the cost for the cost or duration for which the application had...Read more
What is the best way to test locally without additional frameworks like serverless, SAM or Chalice?
1 comment
Abilio H.
AH
Depending on the language, you can just write your own wrappers and execute them with the right event object structure and context objects.Read more
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Discussions
What are the main features of Kubernetes?
1 comment
Yiorgos [George] A.
YA
- Container orchestration utilising available hardware or VMs, thus decreasing costs - High Availability within a data center / availability zone - Ability...Read more
What does Kubernetes do?
1 comment
Mohit G.
MG
Container orchestration and container management. You can also configure properties on the basis of which scaling of pods will be done. It makes your...Read more
Monty the Mongoose crying
Kubernetes has no more discussions with answers