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by ijpsud 2222 days ago
According to this[0] blog post Lambda@Edge has significantly longer latency (due in part to a smaller number of locations). Cloudflare also uses V8 isolates instead of whole VMs, so much lower overhead. Disadvantage is that you can only run JavaScript and WASM.

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe...