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7 Aug, 2026, 14:46

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?

TL;DR
Long cold starts on Appwrite Cloud Functions are not uncommon. The delay occurs before the code execution. A solution besides warmup pings is not provided in the thread.
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