Azure’s Cosmos DB is one of the platform’s foundations, powering many of its key services. Designed from the ground up as a distributed database, it implements a set of different consistency models ...

More than two years after Microsoft revealed plans to offer its Azure Stack software to makers of hybrid cloud-based appliances, Azure Stack is now set for release this September. Azure Stack, which ...

Serverless functions are a deceptively simple idea that while not especially new, only makes sense in the context of shared cloud services of immense scale. Still, serverless as a reality is both new ...

The notion of a serverless compute architecture could gain some momentum in the next year, as two companies have recently introduced capabilities to simplify the development of apps on top of the ...

Microsoft ­­has added an important component to its public cloud, Azure Event Grid. This new service brings a fully-managed intelligent event routing mechanism that allows communication through the ...

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, ...