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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Mention AWS, and most people think of EC2 and infrastructure as a service. Although Amazon has steadily added platform features to AWS, including storage, databases, and mobile services, no matter ...