Serverless Solutions in Azure

Azure was a late entrant to the serverless revolution, but it has been quickly catching up with AWS in terms of services and feature parity. Just as the Google GCP cloud comes with the experience of running Google Search and Workspace at scale, Azure comes with a track record of running Bing and Office 365 at a global scale. Bing and Office 365 also bring a number of productivity and enterprise applications into the fold, many of which can be integrated in some way with the Azure serverless offerings.

In this chapter, we will learn about the core serverless services that Azure offers. We will kick off by looking at some fundamentals of Azure and then warm up with an introduction to Azure Functions, followed by other key services in the serverless portfolio. The idea is to give you enough foundational knowledge to start experimenting with Azure serverless and then give you pointers to research further and learn on your own.

We will cover the following...