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Within an Azure Function App it is possible to define a daily memory-time quota.

Unfortunately I was not able to find an official resource from Microsoft stating what setting this value actually means.

What is a memory-time quota? What does it mean if I set the value e.g. to 1000?

NF997
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Here is document(refer to Step 7 - Configure a Daily Use Quota for the details.) about daily memory-time quota.

In short, when using Azure Functions consumption plan, it offers near-infinite scale to handle huge spikes in load. But that does also leave you open to a "denial of wallet attack" where due to an external DoS attack or a coding mistake, you end up with a huge bill because your function app scaled out to hundreds of instances. The daily quota allows you to set a limit in terms of "Gigabyte seconds" (GB-s).

For "Gigabyte seconds", you can refer to this SO answer.

Hope it helps.

Ivan Glasenberg
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