Hi, my name is Joey and I am a Product Manager here at Netlify, working on our edge network and serverless edge compute offerings like Netlify Functions and Edge Functions.
Up front, I first want to confirm that there have been some instances recently of Edge Functions instability and service degradation that were not highlighted on our status page. While the overall Netlify Edge network remained up for these periods, you may have unknowingly taken a dependency on Edge Functions via features like the Next.js Runtime, or were not given enough information to understand the reliability implications of knowingly taking a dependency on Edge Functions. Despite its current status as a beta feature, we can, should, and will do a better job of explicitly communicating the status of our Edge Functions service as we improve its reliability.
We also recognize that we definitely could have done a better job of highlighting the beta nature of Edge Functions, and will be adding some language to our homepage and docs to reflect that. We do already have some language today in our build logs (e.g. the Next.js Runtime emits a warning about Edge Functions usage), but based on the feedback here, that wasn’t discoverable enough.
We are driving hard towards ensuring that Edge Functions meets the production standard of reliability that’s offered by the rest of Netlify’s platform, and will share more as soon as we have updates. In the meantime, thanks for your patience and understanding, and for your honest feedback.