Get Advice Icon

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

AWS Lambda

24.2K
18.7K
+ 1
432
Zoho Catalyst

9
24
+ 1
0
Add tool

AWS Lambda vs Zoho Catalyst: What are the differences?

AWS Lambda vs Zoho Catalyst

AWS Lambda and Zoho Catalyst are two popular serverless computing platforms that offer various features and functionalities for developers. However, there are several key differences between these two platforms.

  1. Deployment and Scaling: AWS Lambda provides seamless deployment and scaling capabilities, allowing users to easily deploy their functions and automatically scale them based on the incoming request load. Zoho Catalyst, on the other hand, lacks autoscaling capabilities and requires manual configuration for scaling resources, which may be time-consuming and less efficient.

  2. Integration and Compatibility: AWS Lambda offers extensive integration with other AWS services, allowing developers to create complex workflows using different AWS services. Zoho Catalyst, on the other hand, has limited integration options and may not be as compatible with other external services or platforms.

  3. Pricing and Cost: AWS Lambda follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model, charging users based on the number of function invocations and the duration of each invocation. Zoho Catalyst, on the other hand, has a fixed pricing structure that may not be as cost-effective for applications with varying workloads or infrequent function invocations.

  4. Runtime Environments: AWS Lambda supports multiple runtime environments, including Node.js, Python, Java, and more, providing developers with the flexibility to choose their preferred programming language. Zoho Catalyst, however, has limited runtime options and may not support all programming languages, which can be a limiting factor for developers.

  5. Monitoring and Logging: AWS Lambda provides comprehensive monitoring and logging capabilities, allowing users to track function invocations, errors, and performance metrics using AWS CloudWatch. Zoho Catalyst, however, has limited logging and monitoring options, which may make it challenging to troubleshoot and optimize applications.

  6. Ecosystem and Community Support: AWS Lambda has a vast and active developer community, with extensive documentation, tutorials, and third-party libraries available for support. Zoho Catalyst, being a relatively newer platform, may have a smaller and less active community, which can affect the availability of resources and support for developers.

In Summary, AWS Lambda and Zoho Catalyst differ in terms of deployment and scaling capabilities, integration options, pricing models, runtime environments, monitoring and logging features, and ecosystem/community support. Developers should consider these differences to choose the platform that best suits their requirements and preferences.

Decisions about AWS Lambda and Zoho Catalyst

When adding a new feature to Checkly rearchitecting some older piece, I tend to pick Heroku for rolling it out. But not always, because sometimes I pick AWS Lambda . The short story:

  • Developer Experience trumps everything.
  • AWS Lambda is cheap. Up to a limit though. This impact not only your wallet.
  • If you need geographic spread, AWS is lonely at the top.
The setup

Recently, I was doing a brainstorm at a startup here in Berlin on the future of their infrastructure. They were ready to move on from their initial, almost 100% Ec2 + Chef based setup. Everything was on the table. But we crossed out a lot quite quickly:

  • Pure, uncut, self hosted Kubernetes — way too much complexity
  • Managed Kubernetes in various flavors — still too much complexity
  • Zeit — Maybe, but no Docker support
  • Elastic Beanstalk — Maybe, bit old but does the job
  • Heroku
  • Lambda

It became clear a mix of PaaS and FaaS was the way to go. What a surprise! That is exactly what I use for Checkly! But when do you pick which model?

I chopped that question up into the following categories:

  • Developer Experience / DX 🤓
  • Ops Experience / OX 🐂 (?)
  • Cost 💵
  • Lock in 🔐

Read the full post linked below for all details

See more
Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
Learn More
Pros of AWS Lambda
Pros of Zoho Catalyst
  • 129
    No infrastructure
  • 83
    Cheap
  • 70
    Quick
  • 59
    Stateless
  • 47
    No deploy, no server, great sleep
  • 12
    AWS Lambda went down taking many sites with it
  • 6
    Event Driven Governance
  • 6
    Extensive API
  • 6
    Auto scale and cost effective
  • 6
    Easy to deploy
  • 5
    VPC Support
  • 3
    Integrated with various AWS services
    Be the first to leave a pro

    Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

    Cons of AWS Lambda
    Cons of Zoho Catalyst
    • 7
      Cant execute ruby or go
    • 3
      Compute time limited
    • 1
      Can't execute PHP w/o significant effort
      Be the first to leave a con

      Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

      16
      31.7K
      No Stats

      What is AWS Lambda?

      AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.

      What is Zoho Catalyst?

      It is a serverless development platform that helps developers build applications, APIs, microservices, and more with the help of serverless functions, databases, filestores, and other useful components and APIs.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

      What companies use AWS Lambda?
      What companies use Zoho Catalyst?
        No companies found
        Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
        Learn More

        Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

        What tools integrate with AWS Lambda?
        What tools integrate with Zoho Catalyst?

        Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

        What are some alternatives to AWS Lambda and Zoho Catalyst?
        Serverless
        Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.
        Azure Functions
        Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.
        AWS Elastic Beanstalk
        Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.
        AWS Step Functions
        AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function lets you scale and change applications quickly.
        Google App Engine
        Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
        See all alternatives