Anshu Agarwal
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DigitalOcean is committed to providing products that serve developers throughout their journey, and access to serverless computing has been one of the most popular requests from DigitalOcean users who want to spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building impactful applications. In recent years, serverless computing has gained tremendous popularity among developers building modern apps, and according to IDC’s IaaSView buyer survey, 25% of cloud IaaS buyers intend to utilize serverless functions in the next 12 months. In September 2021, DigitalOcean acquired Nimbella to accelerate our introduction of serverless computing, and today we’re delighted to announce the general availability of our serverless product, DigitalOcean Functions.
DigitalOcean Functions is a fast, scalable, and cost-effective compute solution that enables you to build quickly, scale automatically, and save costs by removing the need to pay for idle resources. Functions are snippets of code that run in response to event-based triggers, and builders of all kinds can now create serverless functions on DigitalOcean for a variety of purposes, including serverless APIs for your web apps and mobile apps.
DigitalOcean Functions enable higher developer productivity and lower operating costs. Some of the benefits include:
With DigitalOcean Functions, we manage the resources and automatically scale them (either up or down) based on demand. This solution is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of developers and businesses by providing the ability to:
You get 90,000GB-seconds of usage for free per month and overages are charged at $0.0000185/GB-second. There is no separate charge for function invocations. In other words, the pricing is simpler, more affordable, and predictable.
Please refer to the pricing page to learn more about the limits of memory and runtime for DigitalOcean Functions.
Over the next few months, we’ll be adding more ways for you to invoke and configure your functions such as background functions, scheduling, and many more exciting use cases. We’ll also be adding support for more language runtimes and scheduled functions. Stay tuned for more updates!
We hope that you’re excited about this release and that you’ll give DigitalOcean Functions a try. Check out the docs for more information and join our upcoming serverless event in the Americas and APAC to dive deeper into the product, how-to guidance, and use cases on June 7, 2022. If you’d like to have a conversation about using DigitalOcean Functions in your business, please contact our sales team.
Happy coding!
Serverless Business Unit at DigitalOcean
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