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AWS Lambda vs Amazon Virtual Private Cloud comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.7
Effective use of Amazon VPC, especially with appropriate EC2 instances, yields significant financial returns, particularly beneficial for startups.
Sentiment score
6.5
AWS Lambda maximizes ROI by cutting infrastructure costs with serverless design, pay-per-use model, and efficient auto-scaling.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon VPC support receives mixed reviews, praised for expertise but facing issues with communication delays and need for self-navigation.
Sentiment score
6.9
AWS Lambda support receives mixed reviews, praised for quick help but sometimes criticized for delays or high costs.
The technical support from Amazon has been excellent.
Cloud and Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
When we use business support, the availability of the engineers is very good.
CloudOps Expert at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
When we raise a ticket or have an issue, the support team is responsive.
Co Founder And CTO at Gamucopia Creatives
Overall, it is good, but there is some room for improvement when it comes to response time and overall competence.
Consultant at Deloitte
if we send an email, we can get a response within twenty-four hours.
Python Developer at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Amazon VPC offers excellent scalability with tools like Auto Scaling, efficiently managing demand for companies of all sizes.
Sentiment score
7.7
AWS Lambda scales automatically, integrates with AWS services, and efficiently handles workloads, though cost concerns exist at high traffic.
The scalability and ability to expand within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud performs very well.
Cloud and Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Whenever the number of requests increases, the system automatically scales up to the target we have set and scales down once the requests are resolved.
Co Founder And CTO at Gamucopia Creatives
When it comes to the increased needs of my customers trying to grow, AWS Lambda is not an issue to grow with them.
Assistant Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the scalability of AWS Lambda as eight because you can write as many limiters as you want, and they can trigger whenever that particular time zone event happens.
Python Developer at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Amazon VPC is praised for security and uptime, with minimal downtime and quick resolution of configuration issues ensuring reliability.
Sentiment score
8.1
AWS Lambda is praised for stability, efficient scaling, serverless architecture, and seamless AWS service integration despite minor issues.
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon VPC users face challenges with compatibility, usability, pricing, and integration, desiring improved documentation, security, and customization.
AWS Lambda users desire improved language support, reduced latency, better integration, enhanced performance, simplified setup, and cost efficiency.
It would be great if we could use the AWS Direct Connect in Mongolia.
Unitel Group at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Based on my experience, there are aspects of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud that could be improved to enhance the solution.
Cloud and Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Regarding scaling, we can add up to 1,000 execution environments for every 10 seconds per function, per region.
Consultant at Deloitte
AWS Lambda needs to improve cold start time.
Co Founder And CTO at Gamucopia Creatives
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users find Amazon VPC pricing complex and costly, but competitive when extensively using AWS products with minimal configuration setup.
AWS Lambda provides cost-effective pay-as-you-go pricing, free first million requests monthly, and requires careful cost management for extensive use.
AWS Lambda pricing is high, similar to the servers for S3 buckets.
Python Developer at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon VPC offers security, scalability, and easy integration with AWS, featuring flexible pricing and customizable policies for efficient management.
AWS Lambda offers serverless architecture, seamless AWS integration, automatic scaling, cost-effective pricing, and supports multiple programming languages and CI/CD integration.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows the nodes to talk to each other, enhances our security with its security group feature, and the network access list can isolate attackers, while the subnet service organizes our nodes' network topology and provides access to customers.
Unitel Group at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The ability to define and work with subnets is particularly helpful in managing the networking environment.
Cloud and Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
For security and ACLs, Routing Tables, route tables, subnet, and subnetting, these are very useful functions.
CloudOps Expert at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Automatic scaling is a valuable feature. When the number of requests increases, the system automatically scales up to the target we have set and scales down once the requests are resolved.
Co Founder And CTO at Gamucopia Creatives
As it is serverless, AWS Lambda has more scope for building scalable architectures.
Consultant at Deloitte
What I appreciate most about AWS Lambda is that you do not need to purchase the entire service; it only charges you whenever you call that API, which is excellent.
Python Developer at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Ranking in Compute Service
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
AWS Lambda
Ranking in Compute Service
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
92
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is 3.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Lambda is 15.3%, down from 21.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Compute Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Lambda15.3%
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud3.7%
Other81.0%
Compute Service
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2754069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unitel Group at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Network flexibility and security have been enhanced
The most beneficial feature of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud for our use case is the site-to-site connection, allowing our data centers to connect to the AWS EC2 nodes, which is currently the most useful feature for us. The Elastic Network Interface is the main component of our networking services within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, allowing us to connect to our nodes and enabling all node-to-node communication, node-to-customer, and customer-to-node interactions. It is a really helpful feature for us. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows the nodes to talk to each other, enhances our security with its security group feature, and the network access list can isolate attackers, while the subnet service organizes our nodes' network topology and provides access to customers. It is a really great feature, and I would highly recommend it.
Rajaraman Ramachandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder And CTO at Gamucopia Creatives
Has enabled us to manage compute resources efficiently while supporting multiple languages
AWS Lambda needs to improve cold start time. Some AWS Lambda functions require a cold start, and if you need AWS Lambda to provide quick responses, you need some of the AWS Lambdas to be always on, which is risky. We need AWS Lambda's cold start time to be reduced so that we can use it much faster than now. We need a better way to handle the cold start. We should be able to start AWS Lambda much before in a predictable way instead of just calling and then having it start.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
19%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Performing Arts
9%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise45
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?
Looking for a cloud native scheduler services for ec2 and rds instances within aws virtual private network. That would help to put our instances down in the non business hours very effectively rath...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?
Our main use case for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is that it is our main network solution. It is mainly used to connect our nodes and also connect our on-premise nodes to the AWS VPC using the sit...
Which is better, AWS Lambda or Batch?
AWS Lambda is a serverless solution. It doesn’t require any infrastructure, which allows for cost savings. There is no setup process to deal with, as the entire solution is in the cloud. If you use...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Lambda?
Regarding licensing or pricing, AWS Lambda pricing is high, similar to the servers for S3 buckets, and if we purchase them for two years or three years, there will be some kind of discount, but it ...
What needs improvement with AWS Lambda?
From my perspective, I believe there is nothing to improve in AWS Lambda.
 

Also Known As

Amazon VPC
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
Netflix
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