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 ...

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, ...

The public cloud provides the ability to rent a supercomputer’s worth of processing power on a moment’s notice for an important task and then deallocate the resources just as fast, but not every ...

Microsoft has brought the notions of states to the formerly stateless Azure Functions, Microsoft’s serverless computing platform. The addition of states gives developers exciting new ways to take ...

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.

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 ...