Microsoft is making available a preview of a Azure Functions, a new "serverless compute" service to compete with AWS Lambda.

Microsoft has just announced the preview of Azure Functions, an event driven compute service that will allow customers to process and react to events, while paying only for the required resources.

A number of readers brought to my attention Microsoft's Azure Functions product which seems to be a direct competitor to AWS Lambda. It is curious that during a two and a half hour town hall, on ...

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 ...

With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way ...

Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, “function-as-a-service” platforms such as Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions ...