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 cloud to local datacenters, providing a hybrid model ...

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Take advantage of Azure Functions to run small pieces of code that can be triggered by events in the Azure cloud. Azure Functions is the serverless compute offering in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Essentially, “serverless” means you don’t even need a ...

Microsoft's new Azure MCP Server 1.0 connects AI agents to more than 47 Azure services, simplifying automation and DevOps workflows through an open-source Model Context Protocol implementation.

SAN FRANCISCO--Not to be outdone, while Oracle is hosting its annual Java developer festival, Microsoft released a Java-based preview of its serverless computing offering, Azure Functions. According to TechTarget's definition, serverless computing does not ...

Another benefit of the hyperscale clouds is their operational expertise and their infrastructure design. They can spin up a new server instance in seconds, providing compute on demand. And with container technologies, they’re able to quickly switch in ...