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My company has a larger customer using one of our HTTP Cloud Functions to fetch a large body of data in the response for his Microsoft PowerBI integration. The trouble is, I routinely run into the 10MB response size restriction for this guy and soon others.

Do I need to set up a dedicated API server since, with a low HTTP body length requirement documented at https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/quotas, it seems that server-less API deployment doesn't cover my use case...?

We are heavily invested into Firebase and so far Cloud Functions have been working gloriously for every requirement we have needed to deliver on. I'm far more into programming apps and software than I am a full devops fellow, so any direction the community could steer me in would be very valuable because I'm not sure what new service to spin up on GCP and rebuild these endpoints into.

Thank you!

Frank van Puffelen
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If you need to return a larger payload that Cloud Functions' maximum request size, consider writing that data to a file in Cloud Storage, and then returning the path to that file to the caller from the Cloud Function call.

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    Thank you, BTW, this is the correct advice and indeed the path we took with a solution that's working for much larger payloads. – Dunlavy Jun 13 '22 at 20:23