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Functions 4.7/10

Lambda on Graviton2 (Arm) for up to ~34% better price/perf vs x86; duration ~$0.0000133/GB-s, same $0.20/M requests, shares the 1M requests + 400,000 GB-s free tier.

AWS Lambda scores 4.7/10 for free value in Functions. The main constraint: Free tier of 1M requests + 400,000 GB-seconds/month (shared); then $0.0000133334 per GB-second (Arm) + $0.20 per 1M requests. Lambda on Graviton2 (Arm) for up to ~34% better price/perf vs x86.

Category Functions Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.7 / 10
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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
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Deploy friction 8.8/10
value = 8.8/100
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Key metrics

$13n/GB-s
$0.20/M req
Arm -34%

What you get

Free tier of 1M requests + 400,000 GB-seconds/month (shared); then $0.0000133334 per GB-second (Arm) + $0.20 per 1M requests. Lambda on Graviton2 (Arm) for up to ~34% better price/perf vs x86.

~75,000 GB-seconds (~20.8 GB-hours at 1GB) per $1 of duration on Arm - meaningfully cheaper than x86 for the same memory; same request value.

Sources

paid value serverless-functions