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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.

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Documentation

Documentation

Quickstart

Build simple, single-purpose functions

Learn how to create and deploy single-purpose functions that are attached to events emitted from your cloud infrastructure and services. 
Quickstart

Deploy your first function

Learn how to set up your development environment, create a new function, specify dependencies, deploy and test your function, and view logs with our Quickstarts.
Tutorial

Interact with Firebase using HTTP-triggered Cloud Functions

Learn how to use an HTTP-triggered Cloud Function to interact with the Firebase Realtime Database.
Tutorial

Trigger a function that does ML to extract text from images

Learn how to use a Cloud Function to extract text from images using Cloud Vision API.

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