Appwrite Functions cold start

Hello. I'm seeing really long cold starts on Appwrite Cloud Functions and wanted to know if this is expected.

My function just authenticates the user, fetches ~25 rows from TablesDB, maps them, and returns JSON.

The timings are:-

First request after being idle: ~7.5s total
Second request (~2 minutes later): ~360ms total

Inside the function my logs show only ~110–370ms execution time so most of the delay seems to happen before my code even starts.

Is this normal for Cloud Functions? Has anyone found a good solution besides warmup pings?

It should be faster! If you don't mind, please DM me with your project id & function id. I'm curious to take a look and see what's going wrong here.

Sure I will DM you the project id and function id