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 ...

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 ...