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 ...

Microsoft this month announced its Azure Functions -- for serverless cloud computing -- now supports .NET 5, an umbrella offering that followed the .NET Core series of open source, cross-platform ...

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.

If you're coding Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017 to work with Azure Storage, one tool that can assist when running functions locally is the Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator, as shown in this ...

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Microsoft introduces unique hostnames for Azure Functions and Logic Apps, reducing endpoint security risks. Non-enumerable Azure app URLs limit reconnaissance, scanning, targeted attacks and dangling ...