Absolutely needed, having also access to lambda layers would be a must !

Perhaps the render team could create a thin layer on top of Google Cloud Run? I don't want to scatter our infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.

I'd love to have this!

+1 I'd really like to have this feature on Render!

I'd appreciate this feature as well, mainly to process and store (object storage or MongoDB Atlas) data from a static site when using a continuously running service would be too costly. I can currently do this via a third party provider, but I like Render a lot and would like to minimise the number of services I'm using.

Same. All I really want to do is make a contact form for my static site.

Any update on this on 2022?

We need serverless functions. Please!

We need serverless functions.

Exciting to see this moving to planned! I’d love to see support for NextJS/BlitzJS API routes when deploying those type of front end react projects.