Release notes in 2024

Feature

Type

Description

References

Available regions

New

Function Compute is available in the China East 2 Finance region.

Endpoints

Quota Center for Function Compute

New

Function Compute is integrated with Quota Center. You can apply for quota adjustment in the Quota Center console.

Limits

Feature

Type

Description

References

Temporary disk capacity

Optimized

Function Compute now offers temporary disk space options of 30 and 60 GB for GPU functions configured with 16 GB Tesla, 24 GB Ampere, or 48 GB Ada series GPUs.

Create a GPU function

Function types and runtimes

Optimized

• GPU functions are separated from web functions, creating an independent type. This arrangement allows you to select a function type that precisely meets your requirements.

• Function Compute offers a range of runtimes for every function type, along with the option to create your own custom runtimes.

• Selection of methods to create functions

• Create an event function

• Create a web function

• Create a task function

• Create a GPU function

Default log project

Optimized

• The default log project for Function Compute is changed to the serverless-{{Region name}}-{{Random string}} project. The default Logstore is changed to the default-log Logstore in the project. The preceding log project and Logstore are used to store logs that are generated by new functions whose log configuration mode is Automatic Configuration and existing functions for which you enable the logging feature in Automatic Configuration mode.

• Function Compute offers free quotas for the new Logstore. For more information about the free quotas, see the corresponding documentation.

[Product changes] Default log project and Logstore of Function Compute are changed and free quotas are now available

Feature

Type

Description

References

Runtimes

New

The Python 3.12 runtime and custom runtime (Debian 11) are supported by Function Compute.

• Python runtimes

• Custom runtimes

Feature

Type

Description

References

Billable items, resource plans, and trial quotas

Optimized

Starting August 27, 2024, Function Compute uses compute unit (CU) usage as a unified billable item, consolidating the billing methods that previously accounted for both function invocations and usage of various resources. You are charged based on the unit prices of CU usage. Function Compute offers CU resource plans to offset CU usage. The free trial quotas for new users are also modified to a CU resource plan.

• [Product changes] Changes of billable items, resource plans, and trial quotas of Function Compute

• Billing overview

• Resource plans

• Free trial quotas

Activation of Function Compute

New

Starting August 27, 2024, Function Compute is automatically activated after you register for an Alibaba Cloud account. You no longer need to manually enable Function Compute to start using it.

[Product changes] Automatic activation of Function Compute

Endpoints

Optimized

Function Compute adds the endpoint for the China (Ulanqab) region.

Endpoints

End-of-support for runtimes

Optimized

Function Compute ends the support for legacy runtimes based on the deprecation policy. However, the end-of-support timeline for a number of these runtimes is extended for this particular time.

Runtime deprecation policy

GPU-accelerated instances

New

Function Compute now supports GPU-accelerated instances using Ada series GPUs, adding fc.gpu.ada.1 to the list of supported specifications.

Instance specifications

Feature

Type

Description

References

Auto scaling of provisioned instances

Optimized

Auto scaling of provisioned instances addresses the issue of underutilized instances.

After this optimization, you can specify time zones for both scheduled and threshold-based scaling. In addition to supporting custom cron expressions, scheduled scaling now allows for specified triggering cycles and a one-time trigger mode.

• Configure provisioned instances

• Limits and rules of auto instance scaling

Feature

Type

Description

References

Idle GPU billing

New

Starting 00:00 on June 14, 2024, GPU-accelerated instances support an idle GPU billing mode, which is turned off by default. After you enable the idle mode, GPU resources for GPU-accelerated instances are frozen when no requests are being processed, and the instances enter the idle state. The idle GPU usage is billed at a lower unit price, which significantly reduces costs.

• [Product announcements] Function Compute introduces idle billing for GPU usage

• Billing overview

Feature

Type

Description

References

Function performance profiling

New

You can use the performance profiling feature to identify the performance ceiling of a single instance, that is, the maximum queries per second (QPS). The generated performance profile allows you to obtain the optimal instance specifications and concurrency settings that meet your end-to-end latency requirements.

Function performance profiling (public preview)

Feature

Type

Description

References

Asynchronous tasks

New

When you invoke a Function Compute function in asynchronous mode, you can enable the task mode to process asynchronous requests if you want to track and save states of each phase of the asynchronous invocation. The asynchronous task mode helps improve task control and observability capabilities.

• Asynchronous task feature

• Task management

Feature

Type

Description

References

Tags

New

Function Compute lets you classify function resources with tags. Tags facilitate resource search and aggregation.

You can use tags to group functions and assign varying permissions to different roles.

Manage tags

Bill splitting

New

Function Compute provides the tagging feature for resource units to facilitate resource search and aggregation. You can add tags to functions and use the tags to split bills.

Split bills

Feature

Type

Description

References

Runtimes

New

Node.js 18 and Node.js 20 runtimes are supported by Function Compute.

• Node.js runtimes