Summary

Microsoft frequently adds more services to its Azure portfolio. In addition to having serverless services that match AWS, they also have a large number of vendor integrations. These integrations really help in building enterprise serverless applications. There are more services in the serverless portfolio to cover, but that would merit a book on its own. For some of the customer success stories, visit https://customers.microsoft.com/ and search for any of the Azure serverless services. There are a number of Azure Functions case studies.

In this chapter, we started by learning the fundamentals of Azure, followed by covering the fundamental serverless service – Azure Functions, which offers a FaaS platform. Then we went through Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Event Grid, and finally, Logic Apps. This way, we were able to touch upon the core serverless services: FaaS, Object Storage, eventing, NoSQL databases, and workflow management. We concluded with a project on image resizing...