Gcore Function as a service

About Gcore Function as a service

Gcore Function as a Service lets developers run code as functions without provisioning or maintaining virtual machines. It is a serverless compute offering within Gcore's broader cloud platform, which also includes CDN, DNS, streaming, AI inference, GPU cloud, compute, storage, containers, databases, and security products such as WAF and DDoS protection.

The service is billed based on the duration pods are allocated to run submitted code; when there are no requests and a configured pod timeout passes, the pod shuts down, with the shutdown process taking up to one minute. Cost efficiency is achieved when requests are frequent or pods remain active longer to serve them.

Gcore advertises a 99.9% production-level SLA for this service and provides a pricing comparison against Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, and Scaleway based on a workload of 4,000,000 invocations, GB-per-second execution, and egress for 400GB, using the Frankfurt region as the basis for comparison.

Key features

• Run code as functions without provisioning or maintaining virtual machines
• 99.9% production-level SLA
• Automatic pod scale-down when idle to reduce cost
• Competitive per-invocation and GB-second pricing versus AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and GCP Cloud Functions

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