Moderate to move
Azure Functions on DigitalOcean: what it becomes and what it costs.
On DigitalOcean, Azure Functions becomes DigitalOcean Functions / App Platform, or long-running services on DigitalOcean Droplets. Handlers port to containers; Azure triggers need re-wiring.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
35% of today
$0.000016 per GB-second is about $41 per always-on GB; a CX33 replaces a typical fleet, 35% with the one-server floor.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Other ways to replace it
The report lets you pick any of these per service; the figure and the grade follow.
Knative or OpenFaaS on DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS)
Keeps the function shape and scale-to-zero on your own cluster; Azure triggers are still re-wired.
45% of today · Moderate
Cloudflare Workers
Stays serverless at a flat, cheap price; handlers are rewritten for the Workers runtime and Azure triggers are replaced by HTTP and queues.
50% of today · Hard
Your own Azure Functions line, from your export
Drop one month of your Azure cost export and the report prices every service, Azure Functions included, on DigitalOcean list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.