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Compare AWS Lambda and IBM Cloud Functions 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (41.9% of reviews)
Enterprise (64.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
No pricing available
AWS Lambda
Star Rating
(1,095)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (41.9% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about AWS LambdaIBM Cloud Functions
Star Rating
(14)3.9 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (64.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about IBM Cloud FunctionsSummary
AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that AWS Lambda excels in auto-scaling capabilities, with a score of 9.0, allowing for seamless handling of varying workloads, while IBM Cloud Functions, with a score of 8.7, also offers auto-scaling but may not be as robust in high-demand scenarios.
- Reviewers mention that AWS Lambda has a higher ease of use rating at 8.6 compared to IBM Cloud Functions' 8.1, indicating that users find AWS Lambda more intuitive for deploying serverless applications.
- G2 users highlight that AWS Lambda's product direction is rated at 9.4, suggesting a strong commitment to innovation and improvement, whereas IBM Cloud Functions' lower score of 6.8 indicates potential concerns about its future development trajectory.
- Users on G2 report that AWS Lambda's quality of support is rated at 8.6, which is higher than IBM Cloud Functions' 7.9, suggesting that AWS may provide more effective assistance when users encounter issues.
- Reviewers say that both platforms offer solid database management, but AWS Lambda's score of 8.2 is slightly lower than IBM Cloud Functions' 8.3, indicating that users may find IBM's database features more satisfactory.
- Users say that while both platforms support a variety of programming languages, AWS Lambda's language support score of 8.4 is slightly lower than IBM Cloud Functions' 8.5, suggesting that IBM may have a slight edge in accommodating diverse development needs.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
AWS Lambda
No pricing availableIBM Cloud Functions
No pricing availableFree Trial
AWS Lambda
No trial information availableIBM Cloud Functions
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
9.1
794
7.9
12
Ease of Use
8.6
802
8.1
13
Ease of Setup
8.5
382
8.0
5
Ease of Admin
8.5
336
8.7
5
Quality of Support
8.6
738
7.9
13
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.9
328
8.7
5
Product Direction (% positive)
9.4
738
6.8
11
Features by Category
Development
8.8
394
7.7
8
8.3
391
8.3
8
8.3
395
8.1
9
8.5
383
8.5
9
7.9
381
8.5
9
Database
8.2
313
8.3
9
8.3
318
8.3
9
9.0
351
8.7
9
8.4
303
8.0
9
8.3
312
8.7
9
Infrastructure
8.7
334
7.8
9
8.4
305
8.9
9
8.7
352
8.1
8
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
AWS Lambda and IBM Cloud Functions are categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Unique Categories
AWS Lambda has no unique categories
IBM Cloud Functions has no unique categories
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
AWS Lambda
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
IBM Cloud Functions
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
23.1%
Information Technology and Services
19.9%
Financial Services
8.4%
Hospital & Health Care
2.7%
Retail
2.6%
Other
43.3%
Computer Software
21.4%
Insurance
14.3%
Information Technology and Services
14.3%
Hospital & Health Care
14.3%
Retail
7.1%
Other
28.6%
Most Helpful Reviews
AWS Lambda
Most Helpful Favorable Review
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 in Internet
Cost/performance ratio is not useful for our use case, which is a shame because on paper it should be a poster-child for Lambda.
IBM Cloud Functions
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
I liked the feature that it works very well even without many manual interventions from dev and support sentimental analysis to analyse the chats is a very good function from ICF.
Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User in Nanotechnology
Missing documentation and videos mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ashish D.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
It can help us to trigger the services and make the execution process faster.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
I liked the feature that it works very well even without many manual interventions from dev and support sentimental analysis to analyse the chats is a very good function from ICF.
Verified User in Internet
Cost/performance ratio is not useful for our use case, which is a shame because on paper it should be a poster-child for Lambda.
Verified User in Nanotechnology
Missing documentation and videos mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Alternatives
Discussions
Is AWS lambda a container?
3 comments
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
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
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
IBM Cloud Functions has no discussions with answers
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