In Forrester's evaluation of the emerging market for function-as-a-service (FaaS), we identified the nine most significant providers in the category — Alibaba, Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nimbella, Oracle, and Tencent — and evaluated them. This report details our findings about how well each vendor scored against 10 criteria and where they stand in relation to each other. Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals can use this review to select the right partner for their FaaS needs.

In the report, Forrester highlights the strength of Cloudflare Workers edge network and V8 architecture. They also explain how Workers is the best fit for pushing microservices to the edge. Since the report was published, the Workers platform has added new observability features and language support templates beyond JavaScript and WebAssembly, including support for TypeScript and templates for Python.