Akka / Deployment / Feature comparison
| Feature | Self-managed | Serverless | Dedicated | BYOC | BYOK8s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Akka runtime |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Akka clustering |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Elasticity |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Resilience |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Durable memory |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Agents and workflows |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Entities and views |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Streaming and consumers |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Metrics, logs, and traces |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
User management: OpenID Connect (OIDC) |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Deploy: bare metal, VMs, containers, PaaS or edge |
✅ |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
Deploy: Akka’s shared cloud |
❌ |
✅ |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
Deploy: single-tenant region in Akka’s cloud |
❌ |
❌ |
✅ |
❌ |
❌ |
Deploy: your cloud account or edge VPC |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
Deploy: your Kubernetes cluster |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
✅ |
Custom network setup |
✅ |
❌ |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
Private data link to your network |
❌ |
❌ |
✅ |
❌ |
❌ |
Auto-elasticity |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Multi-tenant services |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
Multi-region operations |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Persistence oversight |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Certificate and key rotation |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Multi-org access controls |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
Managed rolling updates |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |