Cloud Functions
Run your code in the cloud with no servers or containers to manage with our scalable, pay-as-you-go functions as a service (FaaS) product.
New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on Functions. All customers get 2 million monthly invocations free, not charged against your credits.
Build and deploy your first Cloud Function using only your web browser with this Quickstart
Serve users from zero to planet-scale without even thinking about any infrastructure.
See how customers design applications using event-driven architectures with Cloud Functions
Key features
Key features
Simplified developer experience and increased developer velocity
Cloud Functions has a simple and intuitive developer experience. Just write your code and let Google Cloud handle the operational infrastructure. Develop faster by writing and running small code snippets that respond to events. Streamline challenging orchestration problems by connecting Google Cloud products to one another or third party services using events.
Pay only for what you use
You are only billed for your function’s execution time, metered to the nearest 100 milliseconds. You pay nothing when your function is idle. Cloud Functions automatically spins up and backs down in response to events.
Avoid lock-in with open technology
Use open source FaaS (function as a service) framework to run functions across multiple environments and prevent lock-in. Supported environments include Cloud Functions, local development environment, on-premises, Cloud Run, and other Knative-based serverless environments.
Customers
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What's new
What's new
Cloud Functions (2nd gen) is now generally available with more powerful compute options, granular controls, and new triggers from over 125 sources.
Documentation
Documentation
Build simple, single-purpose functions
Deploy your first function
Interact with Firebase using HTTP-triggered Cloud Functions
Trigger a function that does ML to extract text from images
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Use cases
Use cases
Integration with third-party services and APIs
Use Cloud Functions to surface your own microservices via HTTP APIs or integrate with third-party services that offer webhook integrations to quickly extend your application with powerful capabilities such as sending a confirmation email after a successful Stripe payment or responding to Twilio text message events.
Serverless mobile back ends
Use Cloud Functions directly from Firebase to extend your application functionality without spinning up a server. Run your code in response to user actions, analytics, and authentication events to keep your users engaged with event-based notifications and offload CPU- and networking-intensive tasks to Google Cloud.
Serverless IoT back ends
Use Cloud Functions with Cloud IoT Core and other fully managed services to build back ends for Internet of Things (IoT) device telemetry data collection, real-time processing, and analysis. Cloud Functions allows you to apply custom logic to each event as it arrives.
Real-time file processing
Execute your code in response to changes in data. Cloud Functions can respond to events from Google Cloud services such as Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Firestore to process files immediately after upload and generate thumbnails from image uploads, process logs, validate content, transcode videos, validate, aggregate, and filter data in real time.
Real-time stream processing
Use Cloud Functions to respond to events from Pub/Sub to process, transform, and enrich streaming data in transaction processing, click-stream analysis, application activity tracking, IoT device telemetry, social media analysis, and other types of applications.