Disclosed are a communication method and apparatus based on edge computing, a computer storage medium, and an electronic device. The communication method based on edge computing includes: receiving an uplink Internet Protocol (IP) packet transmitted by a user equipment, a destination address of the uplink IP packet being a network address of a target application server; determining a network address of a local edge server that is configured to respond to the uplink IP packet according to the network address of the target application server; and modifying the destination address of the uplink IP packet to the network address of the local edge server, and forwarding the modified uplink IP packet to the local edge server for processing.