Unlike many proprietary options, Oracle Functions is an open platform built on the Apache 2.0 licensed Fn Project and Docker, and supports CNCF CloudEvents. Customers can choose to deploy functions to the fully serverless and elastic Oracle Functions, or to self-managed Fn clusters running on premises or on any cloud. With Fn, developers can create functions on their laptop and deploy to the cloud.

Unlike most functions platforms, Oracle Functions is container native: All functions are packaged as Docker images. This provides a highly productive developer experience for new users. It also provides greater control for power users, who can fully customize their function runtime environment, including installing any required native libraries.

Oracle Functions is fully integrated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, making it easy to build powerful cloud native solutions. All access—including functions management, invocation, and access to other cloud resources—is controlled by Oracle Identity and Access Management policies. All access, including functions management, invocation, and access to other cloud resources is controlled by Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.

Serverless functions change the economic model while a function is running; there is no charge for idle time. Customers only pay for resources used while a function is running and there is no charge for idle time. Elastic pricing makes Oracle Functions an ideal platform for intermittent workloads or workloads with spiky usage patterns.

Invocation Pricing

Execution Time Pricing