A few days ago, the authoritative consulting firm Forrester released The Forrester Wave™: Functions-As-A-Service Platforms, Q2 2023. With its function computing product capabilities, Alibaba Cloud scored 24 of the highest scores in 40 scoring items, and was once again selected into the Leaders Quadrant. This is also the only technology company in China that has entered the Forrester FaaS Leaders Quadrant twice.
《The Forrester Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q2 2023》报告
As one of the industry's most rigorous assessment models for comprehensive vendor capabilities, the Forrester Wave report is highly recognized worldwide. Starting from 40 evaluation criteria such as developer experience, product functions, technology leadership, and strategic layout, this report took half a year to evaluate the nine most important cloud vendors in the world.
The report shows that
users in the Asia-Pacific region regard Alibaba Cloud Function Computing as the best choice. Forrester pointed out: "Alibaba Cloud Function Computing has a wide range of customer groups, including millions of customers from China and many international corporate customers. Its product line Graph conforms to open standards, emphasizing support for the open source community, especially supporting GPU instances and comprehensive observability. In addition, Function Compute supports billing duration with 1 millisecond granularity, and the model is more friendly."
**Alibaba Cloud has been in the serverless field for many years, and it is also the first cloud vendor in China to provide serverless computing services. **In 2017, the first domestic FaaS product with millisecond-level elastic scalability was launched - Function Compute FC, which is a fully managed computing service with event-driven as the core. Automatically prepare computing resources, run code in an elastic and reliable manner, and provide complete observability, greatly simplifying the development and maintenance process.
Function Compute FC supports more than 100 cloud product event drivers, helping users further reduce the complexity of using the cloud, and realize the full life cycle management from development, construction, debugging, deployment to operation and maintenance, with zero burden on operation and maintenance. Since its release, Function Computing has helped tens of thousands of companies bridge the technical gap and innovate rapidly.
- **Weibo** Run image processing services through function computing, complete billions of personalized image processing every day, and reduce the overall cost by 35%;
- Super Century Lianhua, a traditional retailer, has started All On Serverless in 2020. Computing, storage, and databases are all built with serverless products. The peak business has doubled. The preparation time for promotional activities has been shortened from weeks to hours, and the efficiency of R&D, operation and maintenance has been improved. 30%, cost reduction by 40%;
- AutoNavi uses a serverless architecture to carry 100% of production traffic, with a business scale of one million QPS, function delivery time shortened from days to hours, and overall cost reduced by 38%.
This year, generative AI ushered in a period of concentrated explosion. Function Compute also quickly integrates complete AIGC application cloud suites such as Serverless Application Center and Serverless Devs to help developers realize serverless business. Through rich application templates and the industry's first GPU pay-as-you-go capability, AIGC application development is easier .
Currently, Alibaba Cloud has more than 30 Serverless products, including Function Compute FC, Serverless Application Engine SAE, Serverless Container Service ASK, and PolarDB database. Under the new paradigm of serverless development, Alibaba Cloud will help thousands of industries innovate on the cloud through a rich product matrix and out-of-the-box scenario capabilities.
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