Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

Microsoft Azure now has a feature of its own to match AWS Lambda, the Amazon Web Services service that lets you run applications without having to rent an entire server. Microsoft calls it Azure ...

With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way If you’ve ever been woken up at 3 a.m. because a server went haywire, ...

Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie has fired back at Amazon in the ongoing public cloud wars, announcing a set of new capabilities for Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Guthrie showed ...

Microsoft had reserved Day 2 of its BUILD 2016 developer conference for Azure related news, and the company has just announced the preview of Azure Functions, an on-demand compute service with no ...

Microsoft announced it was previewing a new service today at its annual Build Developer conference that lets programmers create event-driven triggers without deploying any underlying infrastructure.

Azure Functions 4.0 is out in a public preview, complete with support for the upcoming .NET 6. The offering is used for serverless cloud computing, wherein chunks of code -- functions -- respond to ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Yesterday at its Build developer conference, the topic was Microsoft’s first major platform: Windows. Today, it was the turn of the other platform, Azure, with Microsoft talking up its ...

I recently attended a Town Hall hosted by Microsoft presenting their solution for microservices in the Azure cloud. The session provided a view into Microsoft’s approach and support for this rapidly ...