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 ...

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 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.

A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, ...

The addition of durable execution to the popular serverless compute service is a big step forward, but beware the lock-in ...

AWS announced some big updates to its Lambda serverless function service today. For starters, starting today it will be able to deliver functions with up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPUs (virtual CPUs).

Serverless adoption is rising rapidly. Recently, AWS released a new feature called Lambda function URLs. This feature enables configuring HTTP endpoints, to directly invoke lambda functions, without ...