Alibaba Cloud Function Compute is a fully managed, event-driven computing service. It handles infrastructure such as servers, scaling, and reliability, so you can focus on writing and uploading code. Function Compute provides features such as logging, performance monitoring, and alerting.
Data security and user privacy are the top priorities of Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud is committed to building a public, open, and secure cloud computing service platform. Function Compute is developed based on the basic services of Alibaba Cloud.
Shared responsibility
Alibaba Cloud secures the platform. You secure your code and data.
Function Compute ensures service security in aspects such as function access, function scheduling, and runtimes. Users are responsible for the security of identity credentials, function code, layers, and configurations.
| Alibaba Cloud responsibilities | Your responsibilities |
|---|---|
| Function access | Identity credentials |
| Function scheduling | Function code |
| Runtimes | Layers |
| Configurations |
Architecture: control plane and data plane
From the perspective of data usage, Function Compute workflows include the control plane and the data plane.
Control plane
The control plane manages function creation, updates, and deletion. It handles:
Permission control for function operations
Addition, deletion, modification, and query of code and configurations
In most cases, secure transmission and storage of function metadata, code, layers, and image caches
Data plane
The data plane handles function invocations. Three modules are involved in each invocation:
Access services -- Receive invocation requests and initiate function execution.
Scheduling services -- Manage the lifecycles of compute nodes, function instances, and invocation routes.
Compute nodes -- Host multiple function instances. User code runs in the runtimes of these instances.
