Announcements

• [Product Changes] End of support for runtimes
• [Product changes] SDK upgrade notification
• [Product changes] Price reduction for all billable items in all regions
• [Product changes] Notice on changes of prices and free quota
• [Feature changes] ApsaraDB RDS triggers to be discontinued

Release Notes

• Release notes in 2023
• Release notes of 2022
• Release notes in 2021
• Release notes in 2020
• Release notes in 2019
• Release notes in 2018
• Release notes in 2017

Product Introduction

• What is Function Compute?
• Overview
• Related Alibaba Cloud services
• Terms
• Limits
• Regional availability
• Case Studies

Billing

• Billing overview
• Resource plans
• Pay-as-you-go billing method
• Overdue payments
• Split bills

Getting Started

• Overview
• Create a function in the Function Compute console
• Manage function resources by using Serverless Devs
• 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 policies

Serverless Application Center

• Overview
• Manage applications
• Manage the environment of an application
• Pipelines

Runtimes

• Overview of runtimes
• Runtime extensions

Programming Languages

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

Service Management

• Manage services
• Manage versions
• Manage aliases
• Use versions and aliases to implement canary release
• Configure network settings
• Configure static public IP addresses
• Configure a NAS file system
• Configure an OSS file system
• Configure the logging feature
• Tag management

Function Management

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

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

Function Instance

• Instance types and instance modes
• Configure instance concurrency
• Function instance lifecycle
• CLI-based instance management
• Configure a custom health check policy for instances

Advanced Features

• Operation audit
• Manage domain names

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
• DTS triggers
• Message Queue for MQTT triggers
• ALB triggers
• API Gateway trigger
• DataHub one-way trigger
• IoT Platform
• Trigger a function by using a third-party service
• Event triggers for Alibaba Cloud services
• Serverless workflow
• Advanced features of triggers

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

Monitoring

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

Best Practices

• Low-cost cross-border data transfer
• Use Function Compute to process website files
• Use Function Compute to build a front-end CI/CD system
• Use Function Compute to perform ETL processing on logs
• Use Function Compute to obtain weather data for smart home appliances
• Best practice for reducing the cold start latency
• Best practices for asynchronous tasks
• Use fcapp.run to run RESTful applications
• Use Function Compute to perform message data cleansing
• Serverless Practices
• Serverless AI inference based on Function Compute and TensorFlow
• Build an audio and video processing system
• Best practices for GPU-accelerated instances
• Integrate 3rd party applications by using event sources

Developer Tools

• Serverless Devs
• WebIDE
• Manage functions

API and Tools

• Endpoints
• API Reference (2021-04-16, recommended)
• SDK reference (2021-04-16, recommended)
• Use SDKs to execute HTTP trigger functions
• CLI reference (2021-04-16)
• API Reference (2016-08-15)
• SDK Reference (2016-08-15)
• Differences between Function Compute API versions

FAQ

• Overview
• FAQ about general issues
• FAQ about permission management
• FAQ about billing
• FAQ about Serverless Application Center
• FAQ about code development
• FAQ about service management
• FAQ about function management
• FAQ about function invocation
• FAQ about function instances
• FAQ about event triggering
• FAQ about accessing other cloud services
• FAQ about monitoring
• FAQ about Serverless Devs

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 (Serverless Devs recommended)
• Other development tools
• Call statistics and monitoring and alerting (legacy console)