Two cloud development services -- Azure Functions and Azure App Service -- are now available on Azure Stack, which brings cloud functionality to on-premises implementations. Azure Stack extends the ...

Azure’s serverless platform adds support for warm starts, longer-running functions, virtual network connections, and Azure Active Directory Topics Spotlight: Advancing IT Leadership ...

Azure Functions can be invoked by an HTTP request, as shown here, or by a webhook, or by an event in Azure Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, Mobile Apps, and many other Azure services.

With Azure Functions there are no virtual machines (VMs) to manage. Instead, a number of discrete functions live inside a Function app. As with other Azure services, multiple instances of function ...

In addition, the release also includes the Azure App Service, Microsoft’s cloud tools for quickly developing cloud-centric applications, as well as updated versions of Azure’s SQL/MySQL ...

Microsoft is making available a new 'serverless compute' service, called Azure Functions, and is making its Platform-as-a-service offering, Azure Service Fabric, generally available.