Alibaba Cloud Function Compute is a fully-managed event-driven compute service. It allows you to focus on writing and uploading code without the need to manage infrastructure such as servers. Function Compute provides compute resources, allowing you to run code more flexibly and reliably. In addition, you only need to pay for the resources that have been consumed when running the code. No fee is incurred if you do not run the code.
Benefits
- No maintenance required
The fully-managed service allows you to focus more on business innovation instead of infrastructure management.
- Pay-As-You-Go
You are billed based on the amount of code executed and the execution duration. The code execution duration is calculated in milliseconds.
- Auto scaling
Real-time auto scaling and dynamic load balancing within milliseconds help you load shift burst traffic.
- Convenient and Flexible
Leverages the event-driven mechanism to meet the requirements in various scenarios. The serverless feature allows you to handle events more efficiently.
Features
Supports multiple triggers
Functions are triggered by events or called directly through the Function Compute API or SDK.
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Supports multiple programming languages
Supports multiple programming languages including Java, Python,PHP, and NodeJS.
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Logging and monitoring
Views logs from multiple dimensions with a wide range of metrics.
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Fine-grained Pay-As-You-Go billing
You are billed based on the duration of code execution, which is calculated in milliseconds.
Common Scenarios
- Analysis and management of media assets
- Serverless backend services
- Real-time IoT message processing
Analysis and management of media assets
Provides an event-driven trigger mechanism to easily build a full data processing workflow.
By storing and uploading objects, multiple functions can be triggered to perform tasks such as transcoding and metadata extraction. With this event-driven model, you can quickly integrate different services to build an elastic and highly available backend video system.
Benefits
Low costs
An elastic and highly available backend video system allows you to pay for only the consumed resources.
Flexible architecture
Provides a distributed system architecture and Alibaba Cloud-developed high-performance cache software for stability and performance.
Integrations and Configurations
Serverless backend services
Flexible serverless architecture
Function Compute and API Gateway are used to build backend services to verify and manage API requests. The flexible serverless architecture enables you to scale up or down to handle changes in requirements and build various applications.
Benefits
Auto scaling
Real-time auto scaling and dynamic load balancing within milliseconds help you load shift burst
Flexible function calling
An event-driven model that integrates multiple cloud services to support your compute needs in various scenarios. This model offers convenient and efficient services.
Integrations and Configurations
Real-time IoT message processing
Data streams are categorized, processed, and written into the back end in real time
You can efficiently process real-time data streams. For example, you can filter, aggregate, and analyze data that is generated by IoT devices in real time, and save the structured data into databases.
Benefits
Elastic scaling
Real-time automated scaling and dynamic load balancing within milliseconds help you shift the peak load and handle traffic surges with ease.
Flexible calling
An event-driven model that integrates multiple cloud services to support your compute needs in various scenarios. This model offers convenient and efficient services.
