Announcing support for larger memory functions in OCI Functions

We’re excited to announce support for provisioning functions with up to 3 GB of memory allocation in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Functions.

OCI Functions is a serverless compute service that lets developers create, run, and scale applications without managing any infrastructure. Until now, customers could allocate memory between 128 MB–2GB, suitable for most common use cases. However, for data-heavy and compute-intensive workloads, such as processing large datasets, lower memory functions sometimes led to lower performance.

With this launch, OCI Functions now supports up to 3-GB memory, delivering improved performance for memory-intensive workloads. This enhancement allows developers to efficiently run a broader range of data-intensive tasks like extract transform load (ETL) jobs that process large volumes of data in Object Storage, as well as compute-intensive application such as media file transcription.

Getting Started

You can use the Oracle Cloud Console, CLI, software developer kit (SDK), or REST API to configure functions with 3 GB of memory. Our current Functions customers see no breaking changes.

To provision a new function with 3-GB memory, select the 3-GB memory option when creating a function in the Console. 

To update an existing function with 3GB memory, edit the function to update memory allocation to 3GB in the OCI Console.

Conclusion

OCI Functions support for 3-GB memory functions is now available in all OCI commercial regions. Pricing doesn’t change for using 3-GB memory functions. The service continues to charge based on number of functions invocations and Gigabyte memory-seconds. For more information about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Functions, see our documentation.

To learn more, see the following resources: 

• OCI Functions documentation
• Changing Default Memory and Timeout Settings
• Sign up for Oracle Free Tier to try it out!
• How prebuilt functions make enforcing budgets easier (blog post)