Long running compute jobs greater than 15 minutes
Function as a Service (FaaS)
Charges you for the vCPU and memory resources of your containerized applications use per second.
~5-10 second startup
Container as a Service (CaaS)
Event driven workloads
More than 10GB of memory required
Short running compute jobs less than 15 minutes
Environment remains in a warm state
More Operational Burden, More Flexibility
Charges you per invocation and duration of each invocation based on the memory configured
Latency sensitive
Least Operational Burden, Least Flexibility