⚡ Serverless Computing Platforms in Japan

Serverless computing platforms allow developers to run backend code without managing servers, using event-driven execution models where functions are triggered by HTTP requests, database changes, or other events.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, serverless computing platforms are detected on 1.2% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 162K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top serverless platforms in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is CloudFront Functions with an impressive share of 48.3%, followed by Google Cloud Run with 35.5% and Vercel Serverless Functions with 7.8%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top platforms that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. CloudFront Functions ^(-3)
2. Google Cloud Run ^(-1)

✨ Best Serverless Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 7 serverless platforms used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	CloudFront Functions Seattle, Washington, United States A serverless edge compute feature of Amazon CloudFront that runs lightweight JavaScript code at edge locations to customize HTTP requests and responses with minimal latency. Free tier$$$	48.3%
2	Google Cloud Run Mountain View, California, United States A pay-as-you-go serverless service that runs containerized applications without managing servers or infrastructure. Free tier	35.5%
3	Vercel Serverless Functions San Francisco, California, United States A serverless compute feature that runs backend code on demand without managing infrastructure. Free$20+/user/month	7.8%
4	AWS Lambda Seattle, Washington, United States A serverless compute service from Amazon Web Services that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying infrastructure. Free tier	7.8%
5	Cloudflare Workers San Francisco, California, United States A serverless computing platform that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly code at the edge of Cloudflare's global network with low-latency execution. Free$5+/month	0.5%
6	Azure Functions Redmond, Washington, United States An event-driven, serverless compute platform from Microsoft, hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud.	0.2%
7	Cloud Functions for Firebase Mountain View, California, United States A serverless framework that lets you automatically run backend code in response to events triggered by background events, HTTPS requests, the Admin SDK, or Cloud Scheduler jobs.	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Serverless in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 162,380 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 7 serverless platforms across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.