Release notes

Product Introduction

• What is Function Compute?
• Function types
• Terms
• Limits
• Regional availability
• FAQ

Case Studies

• Century Mart
• JL-Tour
• Shimo Docs
• Sina Weibo
• Xianyu
• Yuque
• Qinglin Cloud
• AutoNavi
• Lagou Education

Billing

• Overview
• Pay-as-you-go billing method
• Overdue payments
• FAQ about billing

Getting Started

• How to use Function Compute
• Activate Function Compute
• Create a function in the Function Compute console
• Use Serverless Devs to manage function resources
• Sample code

Permission Management

• Use the permission assistant to manage permissions
• Grant Function Compute permissions to access other Alibaba Cloud services
• Grant an event source permissions to access Function Compute
• Grant permissions to a RAM user by using an Alibaba Cloud account
• Grant permissions across Alibaba Cloud accounts by using a RAM role
• Policies and sample custom policies
• FAQ about permission management

Programming Languages

• Overview
• Basics
• Node.js
• Python
• PHP
• Java
• C#
• Go
• Custom Runtime
• Custom Container
• Programming model extensions
• FAQ about code development

Service Management

• Manage microservices
• Manage versions
• Manage aliases
• Canary release
• Configure network settings
• Configure static public IP addresses
• Configure a NAS file system
• Configure the logging feature
• Tag management
• FAQ about service management

Function Management

• Manage functions
• Install third-party dependencies on Function Compute
• Layer management
• Environment variables
• Configure custom DNS settings for functions
• FAQ about function management

Invoke Functions

• Synchronous invocations
• Asynchronous invocation
• Asynchronous task management
• Call examples
• Error handling
• Configure provisioned instances and auto scaling rules
• Overview of configuring the maximum number of on-demand instances
• FAQ about function invocation

Function Instance

• Instance types and instance modes
• Specify the instance concurrency
• Function instance lifecycle
• Manage instances by using the CLI
• FAQ about function instances

Advanced Features

• Configure a custom domain name
• Operation audit

Event Triggers

• Trigger overview
• Manage triggers
• Formats of event for different triggers
• Time trigger
• OSS triggers
• SLS triggers
• CDN event triggers
• Tablestore trigger
• HTTP triggers
• MNS topic triggers
• MNS queue triggers
• Message Queue for Apache RocketMQ triggers
• RabbitMQ triggers
• Message Queue for Apache Kafka trigger
• API Gateway trigger
• EventBridge trigger
• Serverless workflow

Access Other Services

• Access a NAS file system
• Access a database
• Access an ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL database
• Access an ApsaraDB for MongoDB database
• Access an ApsaraDB for Redis database
• Access an ApsaraDB RDS for SQL Server database
• Access an ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL database
• FAQ about accessing other cloud services

Monitoring

• Metrics
• Metrics data
• Instance-level metrics
• Tracing analysis
• Insights
• ARMS advanced monitoring
• FAQ
• Auditable events of Function Compute

Use Cases

• Best practices
• Serverless AI inference based on Function Compute and TensorFlow
• Build an audio and video processing system

Serverless Devs

• Migrate resources from Funcraft to Serverless Devs
• What is Serverless Devs?
• Install Serverless Devs
• Configure Serverless Devs
• Use Serverless Devs to manage function resources
• Serverless Devs commands
• FC-API
• Use Serverless Devs to migrate web frameworks

API and Tools

• Endpoints
• API Reference (2021-04-16, recommended)
• SDK reference (2021-04-16, recommended)
• CLI reference (2021-04-16)
• API Reference (2016-08-15)
• SDK Reference (2016-08-15)
• Differences between Function Compute API versions

FAQ

Contact Us

Security Whitepaper

• Overview
• Control-plane security
• Data-plane security
• Shared responsibilities

Legal Resources

• Function Compute Service Level Agreement

Archived Documents

• Funcraft (no longer maintained)
• fcli (no longer maintained)
• Aliyun Serverless VSCode Extension
• Other development tools
• Migrate Popular Web Frameworks(no longer maintained)
• Call statistics and monitoring and alerting (legacy console)