---
title: "Serverless Bun vs Node: Benchmarking on AWS Lambda"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-bun-vs-node-benchmarking-on-aws-lambda-aeohbw93i
source_url: https://medium.com/@mitchellkossoris/serverless-bun-vs-node-benchmarking-on-aws-lambda-ecd4fe7c2fc2?source=rss------javascript-5
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2023-09-13T01:40:54.033Z
updated: 2023-09-13T01:40:52.506Z
tags: ["javascript", "aws", "performance", "nodejs", "computing", "serverless", "rest-api", "aws-lambda", "api-gateway", "bun"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 179
comments: 7
language: en
---

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# Serverless Bun vs Node: Benchmarking on AWS Lambda

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 179 upvotes · 7 comments

## Summary

Serverless Bun vs Node: Benchmarking on AWS Lambda. Bun promises a whole host of benefits, mostly around performance and developer experience, while boasting strong interoperability standards. Bun claims it can process logic at 3-4x the speed of NodeJS.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://medium.com/@mitchellkossoris/serverless-bun-vs-node-benchmarking-on-aws-lambda-ecd4fe7c2fc2?source=rss------javascript-5>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@tanhv90** · 3 upvotes

> Great work, bro.

**@jaikanthjay46** · 2 upvotes

> I wonder if writing it as a custom runtime as a Docker Image might give better cold start times.

**@ve\_sharma** · 1 upvotes

> This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing this with the community :) Super cool to see Bun on the run!

**@krishna100** · 0 upvotes

> Node is node

**@hknakata** · 0 upvotes

> very good summary, to understand the Bun and Node about performance

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Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#computing](https://daily.dev/tags/computing), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless), [#rest-api](https://daily.dev/tags/rest-api), [#aws-lambda](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-lambda), [#api-gateway](https://daily.dev/tags/api-gateway), [#bun](https://daily.dev/tags/bun)

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